Methods and Apparatuses for Determining a Leak of Resource and Predicting Usage Condition of Resource

ABSTRACT

A method and an apparatus for determining a leak of a program running resource are disclosed that relate to the field of computer applications. The method for predicting a usage condition of a program running resource includes collecting program running resource usage at least once within each program running resource usage period; decomposing the collected program running resource usage into different resource components; for data contained in each resource component, determining a prediction function for the resource component; determining an overall prediction function for a program running resource according to the determined prediction functions for all the resource components; and predicting a usage condition of the program running resource based on the determined overall prediction function.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of International Application No.PCT/CN2014/080271, filed on Jun. 19, 2014, which claims priority toChinese Patent Application No. 201310190659.3, filed on May 21, 2013,both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the computer application field, and inparticular, to a method and an apparatus for determining a leak of aprogram running resource and a method and an apparatus for predicting ausage condition of a program running resource.

BACKGROUND

A program running resource such as memory, a file handle, a semaphore, adatabase connection pool, or a thread pool is a critical resource neededwhen a program runs. During running, a program applies for a resourcewhen needing to use a program running resource and releases the occupiedprogram running resource in time when the use ends. If the occupiedprogram running resource is not released in time, a program runningresource a leak problem occurs. The program running resource a leakproblem is described below using memory leak as an example.

Memory leak refers to that a design or encoding problem causes a programnot to release in time memory that is no longer used, resulting inincreasingly less memory available in a system. With long time runningof the program, memory leak becomes increasingly severe, and eventuallya service is damaged or interrupted because of insufficient memory inthe system. Memory leak is a problem that occurs easily and is difficultto avoid during program running. As software becomes increasingly largein scale and increasingly complex, a probability of occurrence of memoryleak in a system also becomes increasingly high.

For the memory leak problem, one of the existing methods of detectingmemory leak is a static analysis method. In this method, a program doesnot need to be run, and instead program code is analyzed manually orusing an automatic tool, to examine matching between allocation andrelease of memory in the code. In a case of a relatively simplecorrespondence between allocation and release of memory, the staticanalysis method can usually effectively detect potential memory leak;however, in a case of a relatively complex correspondence betweenallocation and release of memory, for example, allocation of memory inone function and release of the corresponding memory in one or even moreother functions, an error is easily reported falsely or not reported inthe static analysis method an error is easily reported falsely or notreported.

Another existing method of detecting memory leak is to detect memoryleak by dynamically monitoring allocation and release of memory duringprogram running in combination with determining of a life cycle ofmemory. On one hand, the method needs to manage allocation and releaseof all related memory in a program and needs to accurately determine alife cycle of memory, resulting in complex implementation and largeimpact on system performance. On the other hand, to implement takeoverof a memory allocation function and a release function, a correspondingcode modification needs to be made according to a specific applicationprogram, and determining of a life cycle of a memory also depends on aspecific application scenario; therefore, the method is closely relatedto a specifically detected target system, and is relatively not overall.

In addition, in the prior art it can only be detected whether there ismemory leak; a prediction cannot be provided for a future memory usagecondition, for example, time when memory is to be exhausted or time whenmemory usage is to reach a set threshold.

SUMMARY

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatusfor determining a leak of a program running resource, so as to solveproblems in an existing method of detecting a leak of a program runningresource that an error is easily reported falsely or not reported,system performance is greatly affected, and the method is not overall.

According to a first aspect, a method for determining a leak of aprogram running resource is provided, including collecting programrunning resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period, where the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period, and the program running resource usage period is a periodthat is set according to a periodicity law of program running resourceusage; for any two program running resource usage periods, determining adifference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former period,where a time difference between time when collection is performed eachtime within the latter period and start time of the latter period and atime difference between time when collection is performed for acorresponding sequence number within the former period and start time ofthe former period fall within a preset range; and determining whetherthere is a leak of a program running resource according to a differencebetween the total number of difference values greater than 0 and thetotal number of difference values less than 0 among the determineddifference values.

With reference to the first aspect, in a first possible implementationmanner, the preset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the former period, or, the preset range is a durationrange smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals betweenevery two adjacent times of collection within the latter period.

With reference to the first aspect, in a second possible implementationmanner, before the determining a difference value between programrunning resource usage collected each time within the latter period andprogram running resource usage collected for a corresponding sequencenumber within the former period, the method further includes determiningthat the total number of periods or the total number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage is not less than a setthreshold, and/or a current program running resource occupancy rate isnot less than a set threshold, and/or a current central processing unit(CPU) occupancy rate is less than a set threshold, and/or current timefalls within a set time range.

With reference to the first aspect or the second possible implementationmanner of the first aspect, in a third possible implementation manner,the determining whether there is a leak of a program running resourceaccording to a difference between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0includes, if the difference between the total number of differencevalues greater than 0 and the total number of difference values lessthan 0 is greater than a set threshold, determining that there is a leakof a program running resource.

With reference to the third possible implementation manner of the firstaspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner, a range of thethreshold is greater than or equal to 0, and is less than or equal to70% of a sum of the total number of difference values greater than 0 andthe total number of difference values less than 0 among the determineddifference values.

With reference to the first aspect or the second possible implementationmanner of the first aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner,the determining whether there is a leak of a program running resourceaccording to a difference between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0includes determining a statistic Z of the difference between the totalnumber of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0; and if Z is greater than a set threshold,determining that there is a leak of a program running resource.

With reference to the fifth possible implementation manner of the firstaspect, in a sixth possible implementation manner, the statistic Z ofthe difference S′ between the total number of difference values greaterthan 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0 isdetermined according to the following formula:

if

${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$

where n is the number of program running resource usage periods;

otherwise,

$Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $

where

${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{n - 1}{\sum\limits_{l = {k + 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il} - R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$

R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod.

With reference to the fifth possible implementation manner of the firstaspect, in a seventh possible implementation manner, the threshold is aquantile value determined according to a probability distribution of thestatistic Z.

According to a second aspect, an apparatus for determining a leak of aprogram running resource is provided, including a collecting moduleconfigured to collect program running resource usage at least oncewithin each program running resource usage period, and transmit thecollected program running resource usage to a determining module, wherethe number of times of collecting program running resource usage is thesame within each program running resource usage period, and the programrunning resource usage period is a period that is set according to aperiodicity law of program running resource usage; the determiningmodule configured to receive the program running resource usage that iscollected by the collecting module each time, and for any two programrunning resource usage periods, determine a difference value betweenprogram running resource usage collected each time within the latterperiod and program running resource usage collected for a correspondingsequence number within the former period, and transmit the determineddifference values to a judging module, where a time difference betweentime when collection is performed each time within the latter period andstart time of the latter period and a time difference between time whencollection is performed for a corresponding sequence number within theformer period and start time of the former period fall within a presetrange; and the judging module configured to receive the differencevalues determined by the determining module, and determine whether thereis a leak of a program running resource according to a differencebetween the total number of difference values greater than 0 and thetotal number of difference values less than 0 among the determineddifference values.

With reference to the second aspect, in a first possible implementationmanner, the preset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the former period, or, the preset range is a durationrange smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals betweenevery two adjacent times of collection within the latter period.

With reference to the second aspect, in a second possible implementationmanner, the judging module is configured to, if the difference betweenthe total number of difference values greater than 0 and the totalnumber of difference values less than 0 is greater than a set threshold,determine that there is a leak of a program running resource.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of thesecond aspect, in a third possible implementation manner, a range of thethreshold is greater than or equal to 0, and is less than or equal to70% of a sum of the total number of difference values greater than 0 andthe total number of difference values less than 0 among the determineddifference values.

With reference to the second aspect, in a fourth possible implementationmanner, the judging module is configured to determine a statistic Z ofthe difference between the total number of difference values greaterthan 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0; and, if Zis greater than a set threshold, determine that there is a leak of aprogram running resource.

With reference to the fourth possible implementation manner of secondaspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner, the judging module isconfigured to determine the statistic Z of the difference S′ between thetotal number of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 according to the following formula:

if

${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$

where n is the number of program running resource usage periods;

otherwise,

$Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $

where

${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{n - 1}{\sum\limits_{l = {k + 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il} - R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$

R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod.

With reference to the fourth possible implementation manner of thesecond aspect, in a sixth possible implementation manner, the thresholdis a quantile value determined according to a probability distributionof the statistic Z.

According to a third aspect, an apparatus for determining a leak of aprogram running resource is provided, including a processor configuredto collect program running resource usage at least once within eachprogram running resource usage period, where the number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage is the same within eachprogram running resource usage period; for any two program runningresource usage periods, determine a difference value between programrunning resource usage collected each time within the latter period andprogram running resource usage collected for a corresponding sequencenumber within the former period, where a time difference between timewhen collection is performed each time within the latter period andstart time of the latter period and a time difference between time whencollection is performed for a corresponding sequence number within theformer period and start time of the former period fall within a presetrange; and determine whether there is a leak of a program runningresource according to a difference between the total number ofdifference values greater than 0 and the total number of differencevalues less than 0 among the determined difference values, where theprogram running resource usage period is a period that is set accordingto a periodicity law of program running resource usage; and a memoryconfigured to store the program running resource usage that is collectedby the processor each time and the determined difference value betweenthe program running resource usage collected each time within the latterperiod and the program running resource usage collected thecorresponding time within the former period.

According to a fourth aspect, a method for determining a leak of aprogram running resource is provided, including collecting programrunning resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period, where the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period, and the program running resource usage period is a periodthat is set according to a periodicity law of program running resourceusage; for every two program running resource usage periods, determininga difference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former period,where a time difference between time when collection is performed eachtime within the latter period and start time of the latter period and atime difference between time when collection is performed for acorresponding sequence number within the former period and start time ofthe former period fall within a preset range, and the preset range is aduration range smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervalsbetween every two adjacent times of collection within the former period,or, the preset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the latter period; and if a difference between thetotal number of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values isgreater than a set threshold, determining that there is a leak of aprogram running resource, where a range of the threshold is greater thanor equal to 0, and is less than or equal to 70% of a sum of the totalnumber of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values.

According to a fifth aspect, a method for determining a leak of aprogram running resource is provided, including collecting programrunning resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period, where the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period, and the program running resource usage period is a periodthat is set according to a periodicity law of program running resourceusage; for every two program running resource usage periods, determininga difference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former period,where a time difference between time when collection is performed eachtime within the latter period and start time of the latter period and atime difference between time when collection is performed for acorresponding sequence number within the former period and start time ofthe former period fall within a preset range, and the preset range is aduration range smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervalsbetween every two adjacent times of collection within the former period,or, the preset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the latter period; determining a statistic Z of adifference between the total number of difference values greater than 0and the total number of difference values less than 0; and if Z isgreater than a set threshold, determining that there is a leak of aprogram running resource, where the statistic Z of the difference S′,between the total number of difference values greater than 0 and thetotal number of difference values less than 0 is determined according tothe following formula:

if

${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$

where n is the number of program running resource usage periods;

otherwise,

$Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $

where

${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{n - 1}{\sum\limits_{l = {k + 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il} - R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$

R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod; and wherein the threshold is a quantile value determinedaccording to a probability distribution of the statistic Z.

According to a sixth aspect, an apparatus for determining a leak of aprogram running resource is provided, including a collecting moduleconfigured to collect program running resource usage at least oncewithin each program running resource usage period, where the number oftimes of collecting program running resource usage is the same withineach program running resource usage period, and the program runningresource usage period is a period that is set according to a periodicitylaw of program running resource usage; a determining module configuredto, for every two program running resource usage periods, determine adifference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former period,where a time difference between time when collection is performed eachtime within the latter period and start time of the latter period and atime difference between time when collection is performed for acorresponding sequence number within the former period and start time ofthe former period fall within a preset range, and the preset range is aduration range smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervalsbetween every two adjacent times of collection within the former period,or, the preset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the latter period; and a judging module configured to,when a difference between the total number of difference values greaterthan 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0 among thedetermined difference values is greater than a set threshold, determinethat there is a leak of a program running resource, where a range of thethreshold is greater than or equal to 0, and is less than or equal to70% of a sum of the total number of difference values greater than 0 andthe total number of difference values less than 0 among the determineddifference values.

According to a seventh aspect, an apparatus for determining a leak of aprogram running resource is provided, including a collecting moduleconfigured to collect program running resource usage at least oncewithin each program running resource usage period, where the number oftimes of collecting program running resource usage is the same withineach program running resource usage period, and the program runningresource usage period is a period that is set according to a periodicitylaw of program running resource usage; a determining module configuredto, for every two program running resource usage periods, determine adifference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former period,where a time difference between time when collection is performed eachtime within the latter period and start time of the latter period and atime difference between time when collection is performed for acorresponding sequence number within the former period and start time ofthe former period fall within a preset range, and the preset range is aduration range smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervalsbetween every two adjacent times of collection within the former period,or, the preset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the latter period; and a judging module configured todetermine a statistic Z of a difference between the total number ofdifference values greater than 0 and the total number of differencevalues less than 0, and if Z is greater than a set threshold, determinethat there is a leak of a program running resource, where the judgingmodule is configured to determine the statistic Z of the difference S′between the total number of difference values greater than 0 and thetotal number of difference values less than 0 according to the followingformula:

if

${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$

where n is the number of program running resource usage periods;

otherwise,

$Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $

where

${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k\; = \; 1}^{n\; - \; 1}{\sum\limits_{l\; = \; {k\; + \; 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il}\; - \; R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime}\; = \; {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}\; S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$

R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod; and wherein the threshold is a quantile value determinedaccording to a probability distribution of the statistic Z.

According to the method for determining a leak of a program runningresource provided in the first aspect or the fourth aspect or the fifthaspect and the apparatus for determining a leak of a program runningresource provided in the second aspect or the third aspect or the sixthaspect or the seventh aspect, by using the embodiments of the presentdisclosure, analysis on program running resource usage within differentprogram running resource usage periods during program running can beperformed, so as to obtain usage conditions of a program runningresource in different stages during program running, and accuratelydetermine whether currently there is a leak of a program runningresource such as a memory leak. In addition, in the embodiments of thepresent disclosure, program running resource usage only needs to becollected at an interval during program running, and after programrunning resource usage has been collected for a certain number of times,it is determined whether there is a leak of a program running resource.Therefore, the embodiments of the present disclosure do not greatlyaffect system performance and are applicable to different targetsystems, that is, are more general.

Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a method and anapparatus for predicting a usage condition of a program runningresource, so as to solve a problem in the prior art that a future usagecondition of a program running resource cannot be predicted duringprogram running.

According to a first aspect, a method for predicting a usage conditionof a program running resource is provided, including collecting programrunning resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period, where the program running resource usage periodis a period that is set according to a periodicity law of programrunning resource usage; decomposing the collected program runningresource usage into different resource components, where the differentresource components are constituent parts that are obtained bydecomposing the program running resource according to a use law of aprogram running resource and have different variation laws; for datacontained in each resource component, determining a prediction functionfor the resource component; determining an overall prediction functionfor the program running resource according to the determined predictionfunctions for all the resource components; and predicting a usagecondition of the program running resource based on the determinedoverall prediction function.

With reference to the first aspect, in a first possible implementationmanner, before the decomposing the collected program running resourceusage into different resource components, the method further includesdetermining that the total number of periods or the total number oftimes of collecting program running resource usage is not less than aset threshold, and/or a current program running resource occupancy rateis not less than a set threshold, and/or a current CPU occupancy rate isless than a set threshold, and/or current time falls within a set timerange.

With reference to the first aspect, in a second possible implementationmanner, the decomposing the collected program running resource usageinto different resource components includes decomposing the collectedprogram running resource usage into a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation in program running resource usage and a randomcomponent reflecting a random variation in program running resourceusage; or decomposing the collected program running resource usage intoa trend component reflecting a variation trend of program runningresource usage and a random component reflecting a random variation inprogram running resource usage; or decomposing the collected programrunning resource usage into a trend component reflecting a variationtrend of program running resource usage, a seasonal component reflectinga periodic variation in program running resource usage, and a randomcomponent reflecting a random variation in program running resourceusage.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the firstaspect, in a third possible implementation manner, a prediction functionfor the trend component is a linear function or a nonlinear functionthat uses prediction time as an independent variable and is obtained byperforming linear fitting or nonlinear fitting on data contained in thetrend component; a prediction function for the seasonal component isSt=S_(i), where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and T is aprogram running resource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) data pointwithin a program running resource usage period, to which t corresponds,of the seasonal component; and a prediction function for the randomcomponent is a constant, and the constant is an upper quantile of therandom component.

With reference to the first aspect, in a fourth possible implementationmanner, the determining an overall prediction function for the programrunning resource according to the determined prediction functions forall the resource components includes adding the determined predictionfunctions for all the resource components to obtain the overallprediction function for the program running resource.

With reference to the third or fourth possible implementation manner ofthe first aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner, the overallprediction function for the program running resource is determinedaccording to the following formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; i=t mod T, where T is a programrunning resource usage period; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function forthe random component, where μ is a mean value of data contained in therandom component, σ is a standard deviation of data contained in therandom component, k is a constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].

With reference to the first aspect or the first possible implementationmanner of the first aspect, in a sixth possible implementation manner,the resource components include a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation and a random component reflecting a random variation;or the resource components include a trend component reflecting avariation trend of program running resource usage and a random componentreflecting a random variation; or the resource components include atrend component reflecting a variation trend of program running resourceusage, a seasonal component reflecting a periodic variation, and arandom component reflecting a random variation, where a predictionfunction for the trend component is a linear function or a nonlinearfunction that uses prediction time as an independent variable and isobtained by performing linear fitting or nonlinear fitting on datacontained in the trend component; a prediction function for the seasonalcomponent is S_(i), where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and Tis a program running resource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) pieceof program running resource usage within a program running resourceusage period corresponding to t; and a prediction function for therandom component is an upper confidence limit determined according to amean value and a standard deviation of data contained in the randomcomponent.

With reference to the sixth possible implementation manner of the firstaspect, in a seventh possible implementation manner, when the resourcecomponents include a trend component, a seasonal component, and a randomcomponent, the overall prediction function for the program runningresource is determined according to the following formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; and (μ+kσ) is the predictionfunction for the random component, where μ is the mean value of datacontained in the random component, σ is the standard deviation of datacontained in the random component, and k is a constant.

With reference to the first aspect or any one of the first to theseventh possible implementation manners of the first aspect, in aneighth possible implementation manner, the predicting a usage conditionof the program running resource based on the determined overallprediction function includes, according to the determined overallprediction function, predicting program running resource usage at futureset time, and/or predicting when the program running resource will beexhausted, and/or predicting when program running resource usage willreach a set threshold in the future.

With reference to the first aspect or any one of the first to the eighthpossible implementation manners of the first aspect, in a ninth possibleimplementation manner, the number of times of collecting program runningresource usage is the same within each program running resource usageperiod.

According to a second aspect, an apparatus for predicting a usagecondition of a program running resource is provided, including acollecting module configured to collect program running resource usageat least once within each program running resource usage period, andtransmit the collected program running resource usage to a decomposingmodule, where the program running resource usage period is a period thatis set according to a periodicity law of program running resource usage;the decomposing module configured to receive the program runningresource usage collected by the collecting module, decompose thecollected program running resource usage into different resourcecomponents, and transmit data contained in each resource component to adetermining module, where the different resource components areconstituent parts that are obtained by decomposing the program runningresource according to a use law of a program running resource and havedifferent variation laws; the determining module configured to receivethe data contained in each resource component obtained throughdecomposition by the decomposing module, for data contained in eachresource component, determine a prediction function for the resourcecomponent, determine an overall prediction function for the programrunning resource according to the determined prediction functions forall the resource components, and transmit the determined overallprediction function to a predicting module; and the predicting moduleconfigured to receive the overall prediction function determined by thedetermining module, and predict a usage condition of the program runningresource based on the overall prediction function.

With reference to the second aspect, in a first possible implementationmanner, the determining module is further configured to, before thecollecting module decomposes the collected program running resourceusage into different resource components, determine that the totalnumber of periods or the total number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is not less than a set threshold, and/or acurrent program running resource occupancy rate is not less than a setthreshold, and/or a current CPU occupancy rate is less than a setthreshold, and/or current time falls within a set time range.

With reference to the second aspect, in a second possible implementationmanner, the decomposing module is configured to decompose the collectedprogram running resource usage into a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation in program running resource usage and a randomcomponent reflecting a random variation in program running resourceusage; or decompose the collected program running resource usage into atrend component reflecting a variation trend of program running resourceusage and a random component reflecting a random variation in programrunning resource usage; or decompose the collected program runningresource usage into a trend component reflecting a variation trend ofprogram running resource usage, a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation in program running resource usage, and a randomcomponent reflecting a random variation in program running resourceusage.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of thesecond aspect, in a third possible implementation manner, a predictionfunction for the trend component is a linear function or a nonlinearfunction that uses prediction time as an independent variable and isobtained by performing linear fitting or nonlinear fitting on datacontained in the trend component; a prediction function for the seasonalcomponent is St=S_(i) where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and Tis a program running resource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) datapoint within a program running resource usage period, to which tcorresponds, of the seasonal component; and a prediction function forthe random component is a constant, and the constant is an upperquantile of the random component.

With reference to the second aspect, in a fourth possible implementationmanner, when the determining module is configured to determine theoverall prediction function for the program running resource accordingto the determined prediction functions for all the resource components,the determining module is configured to add the determined predictionfunctions for all the resource components to obtain the overallprediction function for the program running resource.

With reference to the third or the fourth possible implementation mannerof the second aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner, whenthe determining module is configured to determine the overall predictionfunction for the program running resource according to the determinedprediction functions for all the resource components, the determiningmodule is configured to determine the overall prediction function forthe program running resource according to the following formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; i=t mod T, where T is a programrunning resource usage period; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function forthe random component, where μ is a mean value of data contained in therandom component, σ is a standard deviation of data contained in therandom component, k is a constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].

With reference to the second aspect or the first possible implementationmanner of the second aspect, in a sixth possible implementation manner,the resource components obtained through decomposition by thedecomposing module include a seasonal component reflecting a periodicvariation and a random component reflecting a random variation; or theresource components obtained through decomposition by the decomposingmodule include a trend component reflecting a variation trend of programrunning resource usage and a random component reflecting a randomvariation; or the resource components obtained through decomposition bythe decomposing module include a trend component reflecting a variationtrend of program running resource usage, a seasonal component reflectinga periodic variation, and a random component reflecting a randomvariation, where a prediction function for the trend component is alinear function or a nonlinear function that uses prediction time as anindependent variable and is obtained by performing linear fitting ornonlinear fitting on data contained in the trend component; a predictionfunction for the seasonal component is S_(i), where i=t mod T, where tis prediction time, and T is a program running resource usage period;and S_(i) is an i^(th) piece of program running resource usage within aprogram running resource usage period corresponding to t; and aprediction function for the random component is an upper confidencelimit determined according to a mean value and a standard deviation ofdata contained in the random component.

With reference to the sixth possible implementation manner of the secondaspect, in a seventh possible implementation manner, the determiningmodule is configured to, when the resource components obtained throughdecomposition by the decomposing module include a trend component, aseasonal component, and a random component, determine the overallprediction function for the program running resource according to thefollowing formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; and (μ+kσ) is the predictionfunction for the random component, where μ is the mean value of datacontained in the random component, σ is the standard deviation of datacontained in the random component, and k is a constant.

With reference to the second aspect, in an eighth possibleimplementation manner, the predicting module is configured to, accordingto the determined overall prediction function, predict program runningresource usage at future set time, and/or predict time when the programrunning resource will be exhausted, and/or predict time when programrunning resource usage will reach a set threshold in the future.

With reference to the second aspect or any one of the first to theeighth possible implementation manners of the second aspect, in a ninthpossible implementation manner, the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage is the same within each program runningresource usage period.

According to a third aspect, an apparatus for predicting a usagecondition of a program running resource is provided, including aprocessor configured to collect program running resource usage at leastonce within each program running resource usage period; decompose thecollected program running resource usage into different resourcecomponents, where the different resource components are constituentparts that are obtained by decomposing the program running resourceaccording to a use law of a program running resource and have differentvariation laws; and for data contained in each resource component,determine a prediction function for the resource component, determine anoverall prediction function for the program running resource accordingto the determined prediction functions for all the resource components,and predict a usage condition of the program running resource based onthe overall prediction function, where the program running resourceusage period is a period that is set according to a periodicity law ofprogram running resource usage; and a memory configured to store theprogram running resource usage that is collected by the processor eachtime, data contained in the different resource components obtainedthrough decomposition, and the prediction functions.

According to a fourth aspect, a method for predicting a usage conditionof a program running resource is provided, including collecting programrunning resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period; decomposing the collected program runningresource usage into a trend component reflecting a variation trend ofprogram running resource usage, a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation in program running resource usage, and a randomcomponent reflecting a random variation in program running resourceusage; for data contained in each resource component, determining aprediction function for the resource component; adding the determinedprediction functions for all the resource components to obtain anoverall prediction function for a program running resource; andpredicting a usage condition of the program running resource based onthe determined overall prediction function.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in a first possible implementationmanner, a prediction function for the trend component is a linearfunction or a nonlinear function that uses prediction time as anindependent variable and is obtained by performing linear fitting ornonlinear fitting on data contained in the trend component; a predictionfunction for the seasonal component is St=S_(i) where i=t mod T, where tis prediction time, and T is a program running resource usage period;and S_(i) is an i^(th) data point within a program running resourceusage period, to which t corresponds, of the seasonal component; and aprediction function for the random component is a constant, and theconstant is an upper quantile of the random component.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the first possible implementationmanner of the fourth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner,the overall prediction function for the program running resource isdetermined according to the following formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; i=t mod T, where T is a programrunning resource usage period; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function forthe random component, where μ is a mean value of data contained in therandom component, σ is a standard deviation of data contained in therandom component, k is a constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].

With reference to the fourth aspect or either of the first and thesecond possible implementation manners of the fourth aspect, in a thirdpossible implementation manner, the predicting a usage condition of theprogram running resource based on the determined overall predictionfunction includes, according to the determined overall predictionfunction, predicting program running resource usage at future set time,and/or predicting when the program running resource will be exhausted,and/or predicting when program running resource usage will reach a setthreshold in the future.

With reference to the fourth aspect or any one of the first to the thirdpossible implementation manners of the fourth aspect, in a fourthpossible implementation manner, the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage is the same within each program runningresource usage period.

With reference to the fourth aspect or any one of the first to thefourth possible implementation manners of the fourth aspect, in a fifthpossible implementation manner, the program running resource usageperiod is a period that is set according to a periodicity law of programrunning resource usage.

According to a fifth aspect, an apparatus for predicting a usagecondition of a program running resource is provided, including acollecting module configured to collect program running resource usageat least once within each program running resource usage period; adecomposing module configured to decompose the collected program runningresource usage into a trend component reflecting a variation trend ofprogram running resource usage, a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation in program running resource usage, and a randomcomponent reflecting a random variation in program running resourceusage; a determining module configured to, for data contained in eachresource component, determine a prediction function for the resourcecomponent, and add the determined prediction functions for all theresource components to obtain an overall prediction function for aprogram running resource; and a predicting module configured to predicta usage condition of the program running resource based on the overallprediction function.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in a first possible implementationmanner, a prediction function for the trend component is a linearfunction or a nonlinear function that uses prediction time as anindependent variable and is obtained by performing linear fitting ornonlinear fitting on data contained in the trend component; a predictionfunction for the seasonal component is St=S_(i) where i=t mod T, where tis prediction time, and T is a program running resource usage period;and S_(i) is an data point within a program running resource usageperiod, to which t corresponds, of the seasonal component; and aprediction function for the random component is a constant, and theconstant is an upper quantile of the random component.

With reference to the fifth aspect or the first possible implementationmanner of the fifth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner,the determining module is configured to determine the overall predictionfunction for the program running resource according to the followingformula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; i=t mod T, where T is a programrunning resource usage period; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function forthe random component, where μ is a mean value of data contained in therandom component, σ is a standard deviation of data contained in therandom component, k is a constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].

With reference to the fifth aspect or either of the first and the secondpossible implementation manners of the fifth aspect, in a third possibleimplementation manner, the predicting module is configured to, accordingto the determined overall prediction function, predict program runningresource usage at future set time, and/or predict time when the programrunning resource will be exhausted, and/or predict time when programrunning resource usage will reach a set threshold in the future.

With reference to the fifth aspect or any one of the first to the thirdpossible implementation manners of the fifth aspect, in a fourthpossible implementation manner, the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage is the same within each program runningresource usage period.

With reference to the fifth aspect or any one of the first to the fourthpossible implementation manners of the fifth aspect, in a fifth possibleimplementation manner, the program running resource usage period is aperiod that is set according to a periodicity law of program runningresource usage.

According to the method for predicting a usage condition of a programrunning resource provided in the first aspect or the fourth aspect andthe apparatus for predicting a usage condition of a program runningresource provided in the second aspect or the third aspect or the fifthaspect, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, according to a uselaw of a program running resource, program running resource usage isdecomposed into constituent parts having different change rules, andfitting and estimation are separately performed on different constituentparts to obtain prediction functions that accurately reflect changerules of program running resource usage of different constituent parts,so as to further obtain a prediction function that reflects an overallchange rule of program running resource usage; therefore, by using theembodiments of the present disclosure, a future usage condition of aprogram running resource can be accurately predicted, thereby overcominga disadvantage in the prior art that a usage condition of a resourcecannot be predicted during program running.

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FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for determining a leak of a programrunning resource provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for determining a leak of a programrunning resource provided in an exemplary embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for determininga leak of a program running resource provided in an embodiment of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of an apparatus for determining a leak ofa program running resource provided in an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a method for predicting a usage condition of aprogram running resource provided in an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of decomposing program running resourceusage into a trend component, a seasonal component, and a randomcomponent using a typical time sequence decomposition method accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a method for predicting a usage condition of aprogram running resource provided in an exemplary embodiment of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of an overall method for detecting a memory leakand predicting a usage condition of memory provided in an embodiment ofthe present disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for predictinga usage condition of a program running resource provided in anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 10 is a structural diagram of an apparatus for predicting a usagecondition of a program running resource provided in an embodiment of thepresent disclosure; and

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of deployment of apparatuses fordetecting a leak of a resource and predicting a usage condition of aresource according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

In embodiments of the present disclosure, program running resource usageis collected at least once within each program running resource usageperiod, for any two program running resource usage periods, a differencevalue between program running resource usage collected each time withinthe latter period and program running resource usage collected for acorresponding sequence number within the former period is determined,and it is determined whether there is a leak of a program runningresource according to a difference between the total number ofdifference values greater than 0 and the total number of differencevalues less than 0 among the determined difference values. Using theembodiments of the present disclosure, analysis on program runningresource usage within different program running resource usage periodsduring program running can be performed, so as to obtain usageconditions of a program running resource in different stages duringprogram running, and accurately determine whether currently there is aleak of a program running resource such as a memory leak. In addition,in the embodiments of the present disclosure, program running resourceusage only needs to be collected at an interval during program running,and after program running resource usage has been collected for acertain number of times, it is determined whether there is a leak of aprogram running resource. Therefore, the embodiments of the presentdisclosure do not greatly affect system performance and are applicableto different application programs, that is, are more general.

In embodiments of the present disclosure, program running resource usageis collected at least once within each program running resource usageperiod, the collected program running resource usage is decomposed intodifferent resource components, for data contained in each resourcecomponent, a prediction function for the resource component isdetermined, an overall prediction function for a program runningresource is determined according to the determined prediction functionsfor all the resource components, and finally a usage condition of theprogram running resource is predicted based on the determined overallprediction function. In the embodiments of the present disclosure,according to a use law of a program running resource, program runningresource usage is decomposed into constituent parts having differentchange rules, and fitting and estimation are separately performed ondifferent constituent parts to obtain prediction functions thataccurately reflect change rules of program running resource usage ofdifferent constituent parts, so as to further obtain a predictionfunction that reflects an overall change rule of program runningresource usage; therefore, by using the embodiments of the presentdisclosure, a future usage condition of a program running resource canbe accurately predicted, thereby overcoming a disadvantage in the priorart that a usage condition of a resource cannot be predicted duringprogram running.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method fordetermining a leak of a program running resource, including collectingprogram running resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period, where the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period, and the program running resource usage period is a periodthat is set according to a periodicity law of program running resourceusage; for every two program running resource usage periods, determininga difference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former period,where a time difference between time when collection is performed eachtime within the latter period and start time of the latter period and atime difference between time when collection is performed for acorresponding sequence number within the former period and start time ofthe former period fall within a preset range, and the preset range is aduration range smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervalsbetween every two adjacent times of collection within the former period,or, the preset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the latter period; and if a difference between thetotal number of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values isgreater than a set threshold, determining that there is a leak of aprogram running resource, where a range of the threshold is greater thanor equal to 0, and is less than or equal to 70% of a sum of the totalnumber of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values.

An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a method fordetermining a leak of a program running resource, including collectingprogram running resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period, where the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period, and the program running resource usage period is a periodthat is set according to a periodicity law of program running resourceusage; for every two program running resource usage periods, determininga difference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former period,where a time difference between time when collection is performed eachtime within the latter period and start time of the latter period and atime difference between time when collection is performed for acorresponding sequence number within the former period and start time ofthe former period fall within a preset range, and the preset range is aduration range smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervalsbetween every two adjacent times of collection within the former period,or, the preset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the latter period; determining a statistic Z of adifference between the total number of difference values greater than 0and the total number of difference values less than 0; and if Z isgreater than a set threshold, determining that there is a leak of aprogram running resource, where the statistic Z of the difference S′between the total number of difference values greater than 0 and thetotal number of difference values less than 0 is determined according tothe following formula:

if

${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$

where n is the number of program running resource usage periods;

otherwise,

$Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $

where

${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k\; = \; 1}^{n\; - \; 1}{\sum\limits_{l\; = \; {k\; + \; 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il}\; - \; R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime}\; = \; {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}\; S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$

R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an i^(th) timewithin a k^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is programrunning resource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1^(st)program running resource usage period, and m is the number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage within one program runningresource usage period; and the threshold is a quantile value determinedaccording to a probability distribution of the statistic Z.

An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an apparatusfor determining a leak of a program running resource, including acollecting module configured to collect program running resource usageat least once within each program running resource usage period, wherethe number of times of collecting program running resource usage is thesame within each program running resource usage period, and the programrunning resource usage period is a period that is set according to aperiodicity law of program running resource usage; a determining moduleconfigured to, for every two program running resource usage periods,determine a difference value between program running resource usagecollected each time within the latter period and program runningresource usage collected for a corresponding sequence number within theformer period, where a time difference between time when collection isperformed each time within the latter period and start time of thelatter period and a time difference between time when collection isperformed for a corresponding sequence number within the former periodand start time of the former period fall within a preset range, and thepreset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum time intervalamong time intervals between every two adjacent times of collectionwithin the former period, or, the preset range is a duration rangesmaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals between everytwo adjacent times of collection within the latter period; and a judgingmodule configured to, when a difference between the total number ofdifference values greater than 0 and the total number of differencevalues less than 0 among the determined difference values is greaterthan a set threshold, determine that there is a leak of a programrunning resource, where a range of the threshold is greater than orequal to 0, and is less than or equal to 70% of a sum of the totalnumber of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values.

An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an apparatusfor determining a leak of a program running resource, including acollecting module configured to collect program running resource usageat least once within each program running resource usage period, wherethe number of times of collecting program running resource usage is thesame within each program running resource usage period, and the programrunning resource usage period is a period that is set according to aperiodicity law of program running resource usage; a determining moduleconfigured to, for every two program running resource usage periods,determine a difference value between program running resource usagecollected each time within the latter period and program runningresource usage collected for a corresponding sequence number within theformer period, where a time difference between time when collection isperformed each time within the latter period and start time of thelatter period and a time difference between time when collection isperformed for a corresponding sequence number within the former periodand start time of the former period fall within a preset range, and thepreset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum time intervalamong time intervals between every two adjacent times of collectionwithin the former period, or, the preset range is a duration rangesmaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals between everytwo adjacent times of collection within the latter period; and a judgingmodule configured to determine a statistic Z of a difference between thetotal number of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0, and if Z is greater than a set threshold,determine that there is a leak of a program running resource, where thejudging module is configured to determine the statistic Z of thedifference S′ between the total number of difference values greater than0 and the total number of difference values less than 0 according to thefollowing formula:

if

${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$

where n is the number of program running resource usage periods;

otherwise,

$Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $

where

${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k\; = \; 1}^{n\; - \; 1}{\sum\limits_{l\; = \; {k\; + \; 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il}\; - \; R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime}\; = \; {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}\; S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$

R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an i^(th) timewithin a k^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is programrunning resource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1^(st)program running resource usage period, and m is the number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage within one program runningresource usage period; and the threshold is a quantile value determinedaccording to a probability distribution of the statistic Z.

The embodiments of the present disclosure are further described below indetail with reference to the accompanying drawings of the specification.

As shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for determining aleak of a program running resource provided in an embodiment of thepresent disclosure. The method includes the following steps.

S101. Collect program running resource usage at least once within eachprogram running resource usage period, where the number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage is the same within eachprogram running resource usage period, and the program running resourceusage period is a period that is set according to a periodicity law ofprogram running resource usage.

S102. For any two program running resource usage periods, determine adifference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former period,where a time difference between time when collection is performed eachtime within the latter period and start time of the latter period and atime difference between time when collection is performed for acorresponding sequence number within the former period and start time ofthe former period fall within a preset range.

S103. Determine whether there is a leak of a program running resourceaccording to a difference between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0among the determined difference values.

The program running resource in this embodiment of the presentdisclosure may be a memory resource or may also be a software resourcesuch as a file handle, a semaphore, a database connection pool, or athread pool that is needed for program running. In this embodiment ofthe present disclosure, a target object for which whether there is aleak of a program running resource is determined may be of a differentlevel, for example, may be a host, a virtual machine, a process, aprocess submodule, a memory partition of a process, or the like.

A basic concept of this embodiment of the present disclosure is asfollows. According to a periodic characteristic of program runningresource usage, program running resource usage is collected within eachprogram running resource usage period for one or more times. Adifference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within a latter period and program running resource usage collectedfor a corresponding number of times within a former period isdetermined. Here, for one difference value, if the difference value isgreater than 0, it indicates that in two pieces of program runningresource usage corresponding to the difference value, the programrunning resource usage in the latter period rises as compared with theprogram running resource usage in the former period; if the differencevalue is less than 0, it indicates that in two pieces of program runningresource usage corresponding to the difference value, the programrunning resource usage in the latter period drops as compared with theprogram running resource usage in the former period; if the differencevalue is equal to 0, it indicates that in two pieces of program runningresource usage corresponding to the difference value, the programrunning resource usage in the latter period is equal to the programrunning resource usage in the former period. Therefore, in thedetermined difference values corresponding to all the periods, the totalnumber of difference values greater than 0 indicates the number of timesthat program running resource usage rises with time in the total numberof times of collecting program running resource usage, and the totalnumber of difference values less than 0 indicates the number of timesthat program running resource usage drops with time in the total numberof times of collecting program running resource usage. Therefore, adifference value between the total number of difference values greaterthan 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0 canindicate an overall condition of a rise or a drop of program runningresource usage. Here, a time difference between time when collection isperformed each time within the latter period and start time of thelatter period and a time difference between time when collection isperformed for a corresponding sequence number within the former periodand start time of the former period fall within a preset range. Inpractical implementation, to make a determining result more accurate, atime difference between time when collection is performed each timewithin the latter period and start time of the latter period may be madethe same as a time difference between time when collection is performedfor a corresponding sequence number within the former period and starttime of the former period.

Further, in this embodiment of the present disclosure, the preset rangeis a duration range smaller than a minimum time interval among timeintervals between every two adjacent times of collection within theformer period, or, the preset range is a duration range smaller than aminimum time interval among time intervals between every two adjacenttimes of collection within the latter period.

Preferably, program running resource usage may be collected at a sameset frequency within each program running resource usage period.

Preferably, before the determining a difference value between programrunning resource usage collected each time within the latter period andprogram running resource usage collected for a corresponding sequencenumber within the former period, the method further includes determiningthat the total number of periods or the total number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage is not less than a setthreshold, and/or a current program running resource occupancy rate isnot less than a set threshold, and/or a current CPU occupancy rate isless than a set threshold, and/or current time falls within a set timerange.

In an implementation process, one or more conditions to startdetermining whether there is a leak of a program running resource may beset, for example, a condition that the total number of periods or thetotal number of times that program running resource usage has beencollected currently reaches or exceeds a set threshold, a condition thata current program running resource occupancy rate reaches or exceeds aset threshold, a condition that a current CPU occupancy rate is lessthan a set threshold, and a condition that current time falls within aset time range.

In an implementation process, it may be set to start determining whetherthere is a leak of a program running resource when any one or more ofthe foregoing determining conditions are met. Here, a determining resultbecomes more accurate when the total number of periods or the totalnumber of times of collecting program running resource usage is greater,and therefore a threshold may be set; when the total number of periodsor the total number of times of collecting program running resourceusage reaches or exceeds the set threshold, determining whether there isa leak of a program running resource is started. A current CPU occupancyrate may further be considered. If a current CPU occupancy rate is high,it indicates that currently a system is busy; in order not to affectsystem performance, it may be set that determining whether there is aleak of a program running resource is started only when the CPUoccupancy rate is less than a set threshold. A time range of startingdetermining may further be set, and it is set that determining whetherthere is a leak of a program running resource is performed during idletime of the system. In addition, a first threshold may further be setfor a program running resource occupancy rate, where when the programrunning resource occupancy rate reaches the first threshold, itindicates a relatively high risk of program running resource exhaustion,and it may be set when the program running resource occupancy ratereaches the first threshold, regardless of whether other determiningconditions are met, determining whether there is a leak of a programrunning resource is started. In addition, a second threshold may furtherbe set for the program running resource occupancy rate, where when theprogram running resource occupancy rate does not reach the secondthreshold, it indicates that there are relatively abundant programrunning resources, and it may be set that when the program runningresource occupancy rate does not reach the second threshold, regardlessof whether other determining conditions are met, determining whetherthere is a leak of a program running resource is not started.

In an implementation process, it may be determined whether there is aleak of a program running resource according to a difference between thetotal number of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values inmultiple manners, and in this embodiment of the present disclosure, twoimplementation manners are provided as follows.

Manner 1. Determine whether there is a leak of a program runningresource according to whether a difference between the total number ofdifference values greater than 0 and the total number of differencevalues less than 0 is greater than a set threshold.

Determining whether there is a leak of a program running resourceaccording to a difference between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0includes, if the difference between the total number of differencevalues greater than 0 and the total number of difference values lessthan 0 is greater than the set threshold, determining that there is aleak of a program running resource.

In the implementation manner, a range of the threshold is greater thanor equal to 0, and is less than or equal to 70% of a sum of the totalnumber of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values.

Here, because a difference value between the total number of differencevalues greater than 0 and the total number of difference values lessthan 0 may indicate an overall condition of a rise or a drop of programrunning resource usage, it may be directly determined whether there is aleak of a program running resource according to whether a differencebetween the number of difference values greater than 0 and the number ofdifference values less than 0 reaches or exceeds a set threshold. Forexample, in the total number of difference values, 90% of the differencevalues are greater than 0, and only 10% of the difference values areless than 0; in this case, it may be considered that currently there isa leak of a program running resource.

For determining whether there is a leak of a program running resource,the manner is relatively visual, also has a relatively simpleimplementation process, and also has very little impact on systemperformance.

Manner 2. Determine whether there is a leak of a program runningresource according to whether a statistic Z of a difference between thetotal number of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 is greater than a set threshold.

Determining whether there is a leak of a program running resourceaccording to a difference between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0includes determining a statistic Z of a difference between the totalnumber of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0; and if Z is greater than the setthreshold, determining that there is a leak of a program runningresource.

In this implementation manner, the threshold is a quantile valuedetermined according to a probability distribution of the statistic Z.

A basic concept of this implementation manner is to use a probabilitystatistics manner, in which, instead of directly comparing a setthreshold with a difference value S between the number of differencevalues greater than 0 and the number of difference values less than 0, astatistic Z corresponding to S′ is determined, where the statistic Z isa quantity that may represent the value of S′ and meets a probabilitydistribution. In this implementation manner, it is determined whetherthere is a leak of a program running resource according to whether thestatistic Z is greater than the set threshold.

Preferably, the statistic Z of the difference S′ between the totalnumber of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 is determined according to the followingformula:

if

${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$

where n is the number of program running resource usage periods;

otherwise,

$Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $

where

${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k\; = \; 1}^{n\; - \; 1}{\sum\limits_{l\; = \; {k\; + \; 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il}\; - \; R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime}\; = \; {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}\; S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$

R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1^(st) programrunning resource usage period, and m is the number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage within one program runningresource usage period.

Here, the statistic Z corresponding to S′ follows a standard normaldistribution, VAR( ) is a variance function, and sgn( ) is a signfunction. When a difference value between program running resource usagecollected one time within the latter period and program running resourceusage collected for a corresponding sequence number within the formerperiod is greater than 0, a value of the sign function is 1. When adifference value between program running resource usage collected onetime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former periodis less than 0, a value of the sign function is −1. When a differencevalue between program running resource usage collected one time withinthe latter period and program running resource usage collected for acorresponding sequence number within the former period is equal to 0, avalue of the sign function is 0.

Here, a set threshold Z_(α) of the statistic Z is an upper quantile inthe standard normal distribution, where a probability that the statisticZ is greater than the threshold Z_(α) is α, and a value of a may be setaccording to an actual requirement, for example, 5%, 1% or the like. Ifit is determined that Z is greater than Z_(α), it is determined thatthere is a leak of a program running resource, and in contrast, if Z isnot greater than Z_(α), it is considered that there is no a leak of aprogram running resource.

A relatively typical implementation manner for determining a leak of aprogram running resource is given below.

As shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for determining aleak of a program running resource provided in an exemplary embodimentof the present disclosure. The method includes the following steps.

S201. Collect program running resource usage for multiple times at a setfrequency within each program running resource usage period.

S202. Determine whether the total number of periods or the total numberof times of collecting program running resource usage is not less than aset threshold, and if yes, perform step S203; otherwise, return to stepS201.

In an implementation process, other determining conditions may furtherbe set, for example, whether a current program running resourceoccupancy rate is not less than a set threshold, whether a current CPUoccupancy rate is less than a set threshold, and whether current timefalls within a set time range.

S203. For any two program running resource usage periods, determine adifference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within the latter period and program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding sequence number within the former period.

S204. Determine whether there is a leak of a program running resourceaccording to a difference between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0among the determined difference values.

In an implementation process, the foregoing Manner 1 or Manner 2 may beused to determine whether there is a leak of a program running resourceaccording to a difference between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0,which is no longer elaborated herein.

Based on the same concept, an embodiment of the present disclosurefurther provides an apparatus for determining a leak of a programrunning resource corresponding to the method for determining a leak of aprogram running resource. Because the principle of solving the problemby the apparatus is similar to that in the method for determining a leakof a program running resource according to the embodiment of the presentdisclosure, for the implementation of the apparatus, refer to theimplementation of the method, and repeated parts are no longerelaborated.

As shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of anapparatus for determining a leak of a program running resource providedin an embodiment of the present disclosure. The apparatus includes acollecting module 31 configured to collect program running resourceusage at least once within each program running resource usage period,and transmit the collected program running resource usage to adetermining module, where the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period, and the program running resource usage period is a periodthat is set according to a periodicity law of program running resourceusage; the determining module 32 configured to receive the programrunning resource usage that is collected by the collecting module 31each time, and for any two program running resource usage periods,determine a difference value between program running resource usagecollected each time within the latter period and program runningresource usage collected for a corresponding sequence number within theformer period, and transmit the determined difference values to ajudging module 33, where a time difference between time when collectionis performed each time within the latter period and start time of thelatter period and a time difference between time when collection isperformed for a corresponding sequence number within the former periodand start time of the former period fall within a preset range; and thejudging module 33 configured to receive the difference values determinedby the determining module 32, and determine whether there is a leak of aprogram running resource according to a difference between the totalnumber of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values.

Further, in this embodiment, the preset range is a duration rangesmaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals between everytwo adjacent times of collection within the former period, or, thepreset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum time intervalamong time intervals between every two adjacent times of collectionwithin the latter period.

Preferably, the determining module 32 is further configured to, beforethe difference value between the program running resource usagecollected each time within the latter period and the program runningresource usage collected the corresponding time within the former periodis determined, determine that the total number of periods or the totalnumber of times of collecting program running resource usage is not lessthan a set threshold, and/or a current program running resourceoccupancy rate is not less than a set threshold, and/or a current CPUoccupancy rate is less than a set threshold, and/or current time fallswithin a set time range.

Preferably, the judging module 33 is configured to, if the differencebetween the total number of difference values greater than 0 and thetotal number of difference values less than 0 is greater than a setthreshold, determine that there is a leak of a program running resource.A range of the threshold is greater than or equal to 0, and is less thanor equal to 70% of a sum of the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0among the determined difference values.

Preferably, the judging module 33 is configured to determine a statisticZ of the difference between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0;and if Z is greater than the set threshold, determine that there is aleak of a program running resource, where the threshold is a quantilevalue determined according to a probability distribution of thestatistic Z.

Preferably, the judging module 33 is configured to determine thestatistic Z of the difference S′ between the total number of differencevalues greater than 0 and the total number of difference values lessthan 0 according to the following formula:

if

${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$

where n is the number of program running resource usage periods;

otherwise,

$Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $

where

${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k\; = \; 1}^{n\; - \; 1}{\sum\limits_{l\; = \; {k\; + \; 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il}\; - \; R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime}\; = \; {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}\; S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i\; = \; 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$

R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod.

As shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of an apparatus fordetermining a leak of a program running resource provided in anembodiment of the present disclosure. The apparatus includes a processor41 configured to collect program running resource usage at least oncewithin each program running resource usage period, where the number oftimes of collecting program running resource usage is the same withineach program running resource usage period, and the program runningresource usage period is a period that is set according to a periodicitylaw of program running resource usage; for any two program runningresource usage periods, determine a difference value between programrunning resource usage collected each time within the latter period andprogram running resource usage collected for a corresponding sequencenumber within the former period, where a time difference between timewhen collection is performed each time within the latter period andstart time of the latter period and a time difference between time whencollection is performed for a corresponding sequence number within theformer period and start time of the former period fall within a presetrange; and determine whether there is a leak of a program runningresource according to a difference between the total number ofdifference values greater than 0 and the total number of differencevalues less than 0 among the determined difference values; and a memory42 configured to store the program running resource usage that iscollected by the processor each time and the determined difference valuebetween the program running resource usage collected each time withinthe latter period and the program running resource usage collected for acorresponding sequence number within the former period.

The preset range is a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the former period, or, the preset range is a durationrange smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals betweenevery two adjacent times of collection within the latter period.

Preferably, the processor 41 is further configured to, before thedifference value between the program running resource usage collectedeach time within the latter period and the program running resourceusage collected the corresponding time within the former period isdetermined, determine that the total number of periods or the totalnumber of times of collecting program running resource usage is not lessthan a set threshold, and/or a current program running resourceoccupancy rate is not less than a set threshold, and/or a current CPUoccupancy rate is less than a set threshold, and/or current time fallswithin a set time range.

Preferably, the processor 41 is configured to, if the difference betweenthe total number of difference values greater than 0 and the totalnumber of difference values less than 0 is greater than a set threshold,determine that there is a leak of a program running resource. A range ofthe threshold is greater than or equal to 0, and is less than or equalto 70% of a sum of the total number of difference values greater than 0and the total number of difference values less than 0 among thedetermined difference values.

Preferably, the processor 41 is configured to determine a statistic Z ofthe difference between the total number of difference values greaterthan 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0, and if Zis greater than a set threshold, determine that there is a leak of aprogram running resource. The threshold is a quantile value determinedaccording to a probability distribution of the statistic Z.

Preferably, the processor 41 is configured to determine the statistic Zof the difference S′ between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0according to the following formula:

if

${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$

where n is the number of program running resource usage periods;

otherwise,

$Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $

where

${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{n - 1}{\sum\limits_{l = {k + 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il} - R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$

R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod.

The present disclosure provides a method for predicting a usagecondition of a program running resource, including collecting programrunning resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period; decomposing the collected program runningresource usage into a trend component reflecting a variation trend ofprogram running resource usage, a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation in program running resource usage, and a randomcomponent reflecting a random variation in program running resourceusage; for data contained in each resource component, determining aprediction function for the resource component; adding the determinedprediction functions for all the resource components to obtain anoverall prediction function for a program running resource; andpredicting a usage condition of the program running resource based onthe determined overall prediction function.

Further, in this embodiment, a prediction function for the trendcomponent is a linear function or a nonlinear function that usesprediction time as an independent variable and is obtained by performinglinear fitting or nonlinear fitting on data contained in the trendcomponent; a prediction function for the seasonal component is St=S_(i),where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and T is a program runningresource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) data point within aprogram running resource usage period, to which t corresponds, of theseasonal component; and a prediction function for the random componentis a constant, and the constant is an upper quantile of the randomcomponent.

Further, in this embodiment, the overall prediction function for theprogram running resource may be determined according to the followingformula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; i=t mod T, where T is a programrunning resource usage period; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function forthe random component, whereμ is a mean value of data contained in therandom component, σ is a standard deviation of data contained in therandom component, k is a constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].

Further, in this embodiment, the predicting a usage condition of theprogram running resource based on the determined overall predictionfunction may include, according to the determined overall predictionfunction, predicting program running resource usage at future set time,and/or predicting when the program running resource will be exhausted,and/or predicting when program running resource usage will reach a setthreshold in the future.

Further, in this embodiment, the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period.

Further, in this embodiment, the program running resource usage periodis a period that is set according to a periodicity law of programrunning resource usage.

An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an apparatusfor predicting a usage condition of a program running resource,including a collecting module configured to collect program runningresource usage at least once within each program running resource usageperiod; a decomposing module configured to decompose the collectedprogram running resource usage into a trend component reflecting avariation trend of program running resource usage, a seasonal componentreflecting a periodic variation in program running resource usage, and arandom component reflecting a random variation in program runningresource usage; a determining module configured to, for data containedin each resource component, determine a prediction function for theresource component, and add the determined prediction functions for allthe resource components to obtain an overall prediction function for aprogram running resource; and a predicting module configured to predicta usage condition of the program running resource based on the overallprediction function.

Further, in this embodiment, a prediction function for the trendcomponent may be a linear function or a nonlinear function that usesprediction time as an independent variable and is obtained by performinglinear fitting or nonlinear fitting on data contained in the trendcomponent; a prediction function for the seasonal component may beSt=S_(i)where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and T is a programrunning resource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) data point withina program running resource usage period, to which t corresponds, of theseasonal component; and a prediction function for the random componentmay be a constant, and the constant is an upper quantile of the randomcomponent.

Further, in this embodiment, the determining module may be configured todetermine the overall prediction function for the program runningresource according to the following formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; i=t mod T, where T is a programrunning resource usage period; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function forthe random component, where μ is a mean value of data contained in therandom component, σ is a standard deviation of data contained in therandom component, k is a constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].

Further, in this embodiment, the predicting module is configured to,according to the determined overall prediction function, predict programrunning resource usage at future set time, and/or predict time when theprogram running resource will be exhausted, and/or predict time whenprogram running resource usage will reach a set threshold in the future.

Further, in this embodiment, the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period.

Further, in this embodiment, the program running resource usage periodis a period that is set according to a periodicity law of programrunning resource usage.

As shown in FIG. 5, FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a method for predicting ausage condition of a program running resource provided in an embodimentof the present disclosure. The method includes the following steps.

S501. Collect program running resource usage at least once within eachprogram running resource usage period, where the program runningresource usage period is a period that is set according to a periodicitylaw of program running resource usage.

S502. Decompose the collected program running resource usage intodifferent resource components, where the different resource componentsare constituent parts that are obtained by decomposing the programrunning resource according to a use law of a program running resourceand have different variation laws.

S503. For data contained in each resource component, determine aprediction function for the resource component, and determine an overallprediction function for the program running resource according to thedetermined prediction functions for all the resource components.

S504. Predict a usage condition of the program running resource based onthe determined overall prediction function.

The program running resource in this embodiment of the presentdisclosure may be a memory resource or may also be a software resourcesuch as a file handle, a semaphore, a database connection pool, or athread pool that is needed for program running. In this embodiment ofthe present disclosure, a target object for which a usage condition of aprogram running resource is predicted may be of a different level, forexample, may be a host, a virtual machine, a process, a processsubmodule, a memory partition of a process, or the like.

A basic concept of this embodiment of the present disclosure is asfollows. A program running resource is decomposed, according to a uselaw of the program running resource, into constituent parts havingdifferent change rules, that is, different resource components, fittingand estimation are separately performed on each resource component, aprediction function for each resource component is determined, thedetermined prediction functions for all the resource components are thencombined to obtain an overall prediction function for the programrunning resource, and a future usage condition of the program runningresource is predicted according to the overall prediction function.

Preferably, before step S502, the method further includes determiningthat the total number of periods or the total number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage is not less than a setthreshold, and/or a current program running resource occupancy rate isnot less than a set threshold, and/or a current CPU occupancy rate isless than a set threshold, and/or current time falls within a set timerange.

Preferably, the resource components obtained through decompositioninclude a seasonal component reflecting a periodic variation and arandom component reflecting a random variation; or the resourcecomponents obtained through decomposition include a trend componentreflecting a variation trend of program running resource usage and arandom component reflecting a random variation; or the resourcecomponents obtained through decomposition include a trend componentreflecting a variation trend of program running resource usage, aseasonal component reflecting a periodic variation, and a randomcomponent reflecting a random variation, where a prediction function forthe trend component is a linear function or a nonlinear function thatuses prediction time as an independent variable and is obtained byperforming linear fitting or nonlinear fitting on data contained in thetrend component; a prediction function for the seasonal component isS_(i), where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and T is a programrunning resource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) piece of programrunning resource usage within a program running resource usage periodcorresponding to t; and a prediction function for the random componentis an upper confidence limit determined according to a mean value and astandard deviation of data contained in the random component.

As another option, a prediction function for the trend component may bea linear function or a nonlinear function that uses prediction time asan independent variable and is obtained by performing linear fitting ornonlinear fitting on data contained in the trend component; a predictionfunction for the seasonal component may be St=S_(i), where i=t mod T,where t is prediction time, and T is a program running resource usageperiod; and S_(i) is an data point within a program running resourceusage period, to which t corresponds, of the seasonal component; and aprediction function for the random component may be a constant, and theconstant is an upper quantile of the random component.

Further, in this embodiment, the determining an overall predictionfunction for the program running resource according to the determinedprediction functions for all the resource components may include addingthe determined prediction functions for all the resource components toobtain the overall prediction function for the program running resource.

Further, in this embodiment, the overall prediction function for theprogram running resource may be determined according to the followingformula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; i=t mod T, where T is a programrunning resource usage period; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function forthe random component, where μ is a mean value of data contained in therandom component, σ is a standard deviation of data contained in therandom component, k is a constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].

Further, in this embodiment, the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period.

In an implementation process, a program running resource may bedecomposed, according to a use law of the program running resource, intoa seasonal component and a random component, or a trend component and arandom component, or a trend component, a seasonal component, and arandom component, where the trend component is a component reflecting avariation trend of program running resource usage, the seasonalcomponent is a quantity representing that program running resource usagehas a periodic variation rule, and the random component is a quantityrepresenting a random variation in program running resource usage.

In an implementation process, if program running resource usage isdecomposed into a trend component, a seasonal component, and a randomcomponent, a time sequence decomposition method such as a typicaldecomposition method or a Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess(STL) decomposition method may be used. The step of decomposing programrunning resource usage into a trend component, a seasonal component, anda random component is described below in detail using the typicaldecomposition method as an example.

It is assumed that the number of times of collecting program runningresource usage within one period is an odd number N. For program runningresource usage collected for one time, program running resource usagecollected for (N−1)/2 times before this time, program running resourceusage collected for (N−1)/2 times after this time, and the programrunning resource usage collected this time are added, and divided by thetotal number of times of collecting program running resource usagewithin one period, so as to obtain a numerical value of a trendcomponent corresponding to the program running resource usage collectedthis time; the numerical value of the corresponding trend component issubtracted from the program running resource usage collected this timeto obtain a sum value of a seasonal component and a random componentcorresponding to the program running resource usage collected this time;based on this, a mean value of a sum value of a seasonal component and arandom component corresponding to program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding number of times within each period isdetermined, and the mean value is used as a numerical value of aseasonal component corresponding to program running resource usagecollected for a corresponding number of times within each period, thatis, the numerical values of seasonal components of different periods arethe same; and finally, the corresponding trend component and seasonalcomponent are subtracted from program running resource usage collectedthis time, so as to obtain the random component corresponding to programrunning resource usage collected this time.

As shown in FIG. 6, FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of decomposing programrunning resource usage into a trend component, a seasonal component, anda random component using a typical time sequence decomposition methodaccording to this embodiment of the present disclosure. In FIG. 6,horizontal and vertical coordinate values are only used forillustration, and here specific description about units is not given. InFIG. 6, there is program running resource usage corresponding to sixperiods, and program running resource usage is separately collected for96 times within each period.

Preferably, when the resource components include a trend component, aseasonal component, and a random component, the overall predictionfunction for the program running resource is determined according to thefollowing formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; and (μ+kσ) is the predictionfunction for the random component, where μ is the mean value of datacontained in the random component, σ is the standard deviation of datacontained in the random component, and k is a constant.

In an implementation process, the prediction function for the trendcomponent may be a linear function in the foregoing formula, or may alsobe a nonlinear function obtained through fitting, for example, aquadratic function, an exponential function, a logarithmic function, apolynomial, Gompertz, or Logistic. According to the foregoing analysison a characteristic of the seasonal component, data of the seasonalcomponent of each period is the same, and therefore, a seasonalcomponent of one period may be used to predict future program runningresource usage. In this embodiment of the present disclosure, theprediction function for the seasonal component is S_(i), where i=t modT, where mod indicates to obtain a remainder from t divided by T, t isprediction time, and T is a program running resource usage period; andS_(i) is an i^(th) piece of program running resource usage within aprogram running resource usage period corresponding to t. Duringprediction, which piece of program running resource usage of the programrunning resource usage period to which the prediction time t correspondsis determined, and data of a seasonal component corresponding to t isdetermined according to determined S_(i); for the random component,although a precise value of the random component at certain time in thefuture cannot be predicted, a mean value μ and a standard deviation σ ofthe random component can be determined according to existing data of therandom component, and then a certain upper confidence limit such as μ+kσis used as an estimated value of the random component, where k is aconstant.

Preferably, the predicting a usage condition of the program runningresource based on the determined overall prediction function in theforegoing step S504 includes, according to the determined overallprediction function, predicting program running resource usage at futureset time, and/or predicting when the program running resource will beexhausted, and/or predicting when program running resource usage willreach a set threshold in the future.

In an implementation process, according to a determined overallprediction function, a usage condition of a program running resource canbe predicted. For example, if the foregoing R_(t) is made equal to a setthreshold of program running resource usage, time when program runningresource usage will reach a set threshold in the future can be obtained;if the foregoing R_(t) is made equal to the total available programrunning resource, time when the program running resource will beexhausted can be obtained; if t is made equal to certain set time in thefuture, program running resource usage at the time t in the future canbe obtained.

A typical implementation manner for predicting a usage condition of aprogram running resource is provided below.

As shown in FIG. 7, FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a method for predicting ausage condition of a program running resource provided in an exemplaryembodiment of the present disclosure. The method includes the followingsteps.

S701. Collect program running resource usage for multiple times at a setfrequency within each program running resource usage period.

S702. Determine whether the total number of periods or the total numberof times of collecting program running resource usage is not less than aset threshold, and if yes, perform step S703; otherwise, return to stepS701.

In an implementation process, other determining conditions may furtherbe set, for example, whether a current program running resourceoccupancy rate is not less than a set threshold, whether a current CPUoccupancy rate is less than a set threshold, and whether current timefalls within a set time range.

S703. Decompose the collected program running resource usage into atrend component reflecting a variation trend of program running resourceusage, a seasonal component reflecting a periodic variation, and arandom component reflecting a random variation.

S704. For data contained in each resource component, determine aprediction function for the resource component, and determine an overallprediction function for the program running resource according to thedetermined prediction functions for all the resource components.

In an implementation process, the prediction function for the trendcomponent may be a linear function or a nonlinear function that usesprediction time as an independent variable and is obtained by performinglinear fitting or nonlinear fitting on data contained in the trendcomponent; the prediction function for the seasonal component is S_(i),where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and T is a program runningresource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) piece of program runningresource usage within a program running resource usage periodcorresponding to t; and the prediction function for the random componentis an upper confidence limit determined according to a mean value and astandard deviation of data contained in the random component.

S705. According to the determined overall prediction function, predictprogram running resource usage at future set time, and/or predict timewhen the program running resource will be exhausted, and/or predict timewhen program running resource usage will reach a set threshold in thefuture.

In an implementation process, methods for determining a leak of aprogram running resource and predicting a usage condition of a programrunning resource in the embodiments of the present disclosure may becombined. A process for determining a leak of a program running resourceand a process for predicting a usage condition of a program runningresource may be performed at the same time, or may also be performed ina time order. A memory resource in a program running resource is used asan example below, and an implementation manner of combined applicationof methods for determining a memory leak and predicting a usagecondition of memory is provided below.

As shown in FIG. 8, FIG. 8 is a flowchart of an overall method fordetecting a memory leak and predicting a usage condition of memoryprovided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. The overall methodincludes the following steps.

S801. Collect memory usage for multiple times at a set frequency withineach memory resource usage period.

S802. Determine whether the total number of periods or the total numberof times of collecting memory usage is not less than a set threshold,and if yes, perform step S803; otherwise, return to step S801.

In an implementation process, other conditions to start detection of amemory leak may further be set, for example, a condition that a currentmemory occupancy rate is not less than a set threshold, a condition thata current CPU occupancy rate is less than a set threshold, and acondition that current time falls within a set time range.

S803. Determine whether to start detection of memory leakage, and ifyes, perform step S804; otherwise perform step S805.

S804. Perform detection on memory leakage, output a result of thedetection after the detection is completed, and then perform step S805.

Here, for the detection process, reference may be made to the foregoingmethod for determining a leak of a program running resource, and thedetection process is no longer elaborated herein.

S805. Determine whether to start prediction of a usage condition ofmemory, and if yes, perform step S806; otherwise, return to step S801.

S806. Predict a usage condition of memory, and output a result of theprediction after prediction is completed.

Here, for a prediction process, refer to the foregoing method forpredicting a usage condition of a program running resource, and theprediction process is no longer elaborated herein.

As shown in FIG. 9, FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of anapparatus for predicting a usage condition of a program running resourceprovided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. The apparatusincludes a collecting module 91 configured to collect program runningresource usage at least once within each program running resource usageperiod, and transmit the collected program running resource usage to adecomposing module 92, where the program running resource usage periodis a period that is set according to a periodicity law of programrunning resource usage; the decomposing module 92 configured to receivethe program running resource usage collected by the collecting module91, decompose the collected program running resource usage intodifferent resource components, and transmit data contained in eachresource component to a determining module 93, where the differentresource components are constituent parts that are obtained bydecomposing the program running resource according to a use law of aprogram running resource and have different variation laws; thedetermining module 93 configured to receive the data contained in eachresource component obtained through decomposition by the decomposingmodule 92, for data contained in each resource component, determine aprediction function for the resource component, determine an overallprediction function for the program running resource according to thedetermined prediction functions for all the resource components, andtransmit the determined overall prediction function to a predictingmodule 94; and the predicting module 94 configured to receive theoverall prediction function determined by the determining module 93, andpredict a usage condition of the program running resource based on theoverall prediction function.

Further, in this embodiment, the decomposing module may be configured todecompose the collected program running resource usage into a seasonalcomponent reflecting a periodic variation in program running resourceusage and a random component reflecting a random variation in programrunning resource usage; or decompose the collected program runningresource usage into a trend component reflecting a variation trend ofprogram running resource usage and a random component reflecting arandom variation in program running resource usage; or decompose thecollected program running resource usage into a trend componentreflecting a variation trend of program running resource usage, aseasonal component reflecting a periodic variation in program runningresource usage, and a random component reflecting a random variation inprogram running resource usage.

Further, in this embodiment, a prediction function for the trendcomponent may be a linear function or a nonlinear function that usesprediction time as an independent variable and is obtained by performinglinear fitting or nonlinear fitting on data contained in the trendcomponent; a prediction function for the seasonal component may beSt=S_(i), where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and T is aprogram running resource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) data pointwithin a program running resource usage period, to which t corresponds,of the seasonal component; and a prediction function for the randomcomponent may be a constant, and the constant is an upper quantile ofthe random component.

Further, in this embodiment, when the determining module is configuredto determine the overall prediction function for the program runningresource according to the determined prediction functions for all theresource components, the determining module may be configured to add thedetermined prediction functions for all the resource components toobtain the overall prediction function for the program running resource.

Further, in this embodiment, when the determining module is configuredto determine the overall prediction function for the program runningresource according to the determined prediction functions for all theresource components, the determining module may be configured todetermine the overall prediction function for the program runningresource according to the following formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; i=t mod T, where T is a programrunning resource usage period; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function forthe random component, where μ is a mean value of data contained in therandom component, σ is a standard deviation of data contained in therandom component, k is a constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].

Preferably, the determining module 93 is further configured to, beforethe collecting module 91 decomposes the collected program runningresource usage into different resource components, determine that thetotal number of periods or the total number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage is not less than a set threshold, and/ora current program running resource occupancy rate is not less than a setthreshold, and/or a current CPU occupancy rate is less than a setthreshold, and/or current time falls within a set time range.

Preferably, the resource components obtained through decomposition bythe decomposing module 92 include a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation and a random component reflecting a random variation;or the resource components obtained through decomposition by thedecomposing module 92 include a trend component reflecting a variationtrend of program running resource usage and a random componentreflecting a random variation; or the resource components obtainedthrough decomposition by the decomposing module 92 include a trendcomponent reflecting a variation trend of program running resourceusage, a seasonal component reflecting a periodic variation, and arandom component reflecting a random variation, where a predictionfunction for the trend component is a linear function or a nonlinearfunction that uses prediction time as an independent variable and isobtained by performing linear fitting or nonlinear fitting on datacontained in the trend component; a prediction function for the seasonalcomponent is S_(i), where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and Tis a program running resource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) pieceof program running resource usage within a program running resourceusage period corresponding to t; and a prediction function for therandom component is an upper confidence limit determined according to amean value and a standard deviation of data contained in the randomcomponent.

Preferably, the determining module 93 is configured to, when theresource components obtained through decomposition by the decomposingmodule 92 include a trend component, a seasonal component, and a randomcomponent, determine the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource according to the following formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; and (μ+kσ) is the predictionfunction for the random component, where μ is the mean value of datacontained in the random component, σ is the standard deviation of datacontained in the random component, and k is a constant.

Preferably, the predicting module 94 is configured to, according to thedetermined overall prediction function, predict program running resourceusage at future set time, and/or predict time when the program runningresource will be exhausted, and/or predict time when program runningresource usage will reach a set threshold in the future.

Further, in this embodiment, the number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period.

As shown in FIG. 10, FIG. 10 is a structural diagram of an apparatus forpredicting a usage condition of a program running resource provided inan embodiment of the present disclosure. The apparatus includes aprocessor 101 configured to collect program running resource usage atleast once within each program running resource usage period, anddecompose the collected program running resource usage into differentresource components, where the different resource components areconstituent parts that are obtained by decomposing the program runningresource according to a use law of a program running resource and havedifferent variation laws, and the program running resource usage periodis a period that is set according to a periodicity law of programrunning resource usage; and for data contained in each resourcecomponent, determine a prediction function for the resource component,determine an overall prediction function for the program runningresource according to the determined prediction functions for all theresource components, and predict a usage condition of the programrunning resource based on the determined overall prediction function;and a memory 102 configured to store the program running resource usagecollected each time, the determined prediction function for eachresource component, and the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource.

Further, in this embodiment, the decomposing the collected programrunning resource usage into different resource components includesdecomposing the collected program running resource usage into a seasonalcomponent reflecting a periodic variation in program running resourceusage and a random component reflecting a random variation in programrunning resource usage; or decomposing the collected program runningresource usage into a trend component reflecting a variation trend ofprogram running resource usage and a random component reflecting arandom variation in program running resource usage; or decomposing thecollected program running resource usage into a trend componentreflecting a variation trend of program running resource usage, aseasonal component reflecting a periodic variation in program runningresource usage, and a random component reflecting a random variation inprogram running resource usage.

Further, in this embodiment, a prediction function for the trendcomponent is a linear function or a nonlinear function that usesprediction time as an independent variable and is obtained by performinglinear fitting or nonlinear fitting on data contained in the trendcomponent; a prediction function for the seasonal component is St=S_(i),where i=t mod T, where t is prediction time, and T is a program runningresource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) data point within aprogram running resource usage period, to which t corresponds, of theseasonal component; and a prediction function for the random componentis a constant, and the constant is an upper quantile of the randomcomponent.

Further, in this embodiment, the determining an overall predictionfunction for the program running resource according to the determinedprediction functions for all the resource components includes adding thedetermined prediction functions for all the resource components toobtain the overall prediction function for the program running resource.

Further, in this embodiment, the overall prediction function for theprogram running resource is determined according to the followingformula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; i=t mod T, where T is a programrunning resource usage period; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function forthe random component, where μ is a mean value of data contained in therandom component, σ is a standard deviation of data contained in therandom component, k is a constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].

Preferably, the processor 101 is further configured to, before thecollected program running resource usage is decomposed into differentresource components, determine that the total number of periods or thetotal number of times of collecting program running resource usage isnot less than a set threshold, and/or a current program running resourceoccupancy rate is not less than a set threshold, and/or a current CPUoccupancy rate is less than a set threshold, and/or current time fallswithin a set time range.

Preferably, the resource components include a seasonal componentreflecting a periodic variation and a random component reflecting arandom variation; or the resource components include a trend componentreflecting a variation trend of program running resource usage and arandom component reflecting a random variation; or the resourcecomponents include a trend component reflecting a variation trend ofprogram running resource usage, a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation, and a random component reflecting a randomvariation, where a prediction function for the trend component is alinear function or a nonlinear function that uses prediction time as anindependent variable and is obtained by performing linear fitting ornonlinear fitting on data contained in the trend component; a predictionfunction for the seasonal component is S_(i), where i=t mod T, where tis prediction time, and T is a program running resource usage period;and S_(i) is an i^(th) piece of program running resource usage within aprogram running resource usage period corresponding to t; and aprediction function for the random component is an upper confidencelimit determined according to a mean value and a standard deviation ofdata contained in the random component.

Preferably, the processor 101 is configured to, when the resourcecomponents include a trend component, a seasonal component, and a randomcomponent, determine the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource according to the following formula:

R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where

in the formula, R_(t) is the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource; (a+bt) is the prediction function for the trendcomponent, where a and b are constants; and (μ+kσ) is the predictionfunction for the random component, where μ is the mean value of datacontained in the random component, σ is the standard deviation of datacontained in the random component, and k is a constant.

Preferably, the processor 101 is configured to, according to thedetermined overall prediction function, predict program running resourceusage at future set time, and/or predict time when the program runningresource will be exhausted, and/or predict time when program runningresource usage will reach a set threshold in the future.

As shown in FIG. 11, FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of deployment ofapparatuses for detecting a leak of a resource and predicting a usagecondition of a resource according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

In an implementation process, if it needs to be detected whether thereis a leak of a program running resource in a certain monitored object ina target system and/or a usage condition of a program running resourceof the monitored object needs to be predicted, an apparatus in anembodiment of the present disclosure may be deployed for the monitoredobject. If whether there is a leak of a program running resource inmultiple monitored objects in a target system needs to be detectedand/or usage conditions of program running resources of multiplemonitored objects need to be predicted, an apparatus in an embodiment ofthe present disclosure may be deployed for each of the monitoredobjects.

In an implementation process, this apparatus may be deployed online,that is, data collection and data analysis are both performed in atarget system, or online deployment and offline deployment may also becombined, that is, only program running resource usage is collected in atarget system, while data analysis, that is, a process of determining ofa leak of a program running resource and/or prediction of a usagecondition of a program running resource, may be performed offline.

An interaction process between a target system and the apparatuses fordetecting a leak of a resource and predicting a usage condition of aresource in this embodiment of the present disclosure is described belowin detail using a memory resource as an example.

The target system sets, using a configuration file of the apparatuses,related parameters, such as the number of times of collecting usage ofmemory within one period, a significance level of a leak detection, thatis, a in the foregoing implementation manner, a value of k in aprediction function for a random component, and a memory utilization ora usage threshold to start determining of whether there is a memoryleak.

The target system registers with the apparatuses a hook function foracquiring memory usage, such that during running, the apparatuses invokethe function to collect memory usage of a target monitored object.

The target system registers with the apparatuses a hook function forprocessing detection and prediction results, such that the apparatusesinvoke the function to notify the target system of detection andprediction results, and the target system performs, according to theresults, corresponding processing, such as notification alarm,active/standby switchover, process restart, operating system restart,and machine restart.

The target system periodically invokes, using scheduled tasks, externalinterface functions provided by the apparatuses, and the externalinterface functions of the apparatuses invoke the hook function that isregistered with the apparatuses by the target system and is used foracquiring usage of memory, to collect memory usage of a monitoredobject, store the collected data to memory, and use the collected datato execute the process of detecting a memory leak and predicting a usagecondition of memory.

Persons skilled in the art should understand that the embodiments of thepresent disclosure may be provided as a method, a system, or a computerprogram product. Therefore, the present disclosure may use a form ofhardware only embodiments, software only embodiments, or embodimentswith a combination of software and hardware. Moreover, the presentdisclosure may use a form of a computer program product that isimplemented on one or more computer-available storage media (includingbut not limited to a disk memory, a compact disc read-only memory(CD-ROM), an optical memory, and the like) that includecomputer-available program code.

The present disclosure is described with reference to the flowchartsand/or block diagrams of the method, the apparatus (system), and thecomputer program product according to the embodiments of the presentdisclosure. It should be understood that computer program instructionsmay be used to implement each process and/or each block in theflowcharts and/or the block diagrams and a combination of a processand/or a block in the flowcharts and/or the block diagrams. Thesecomputer program instructions may be provided for an overall-purposecomputer, a dedicated computer, an embedded processor, or a processor ofany other programmable data processing device to generate a machine,such that the instructions executed by the computer or the processor ofany other programmable data processing device generate an apparatus forimplementing a specific function in one or more processes in theflowcharts and/or in one or more blocks in the block diagrams.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computerreadable memory that can instruct the computer or any other programmabledata processing device to work in a specific manner, such that theinstructions stored in the computer readable memory generate an artifactthat includes an instruction apparatus. The instruction apparatusimplements a specific function in one or more processes in theflowcharts and/or in one or more blocks in the block diagrams.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computeror another programmable data processing device, such that a series ofoperations and steps are performed on the computer or the otherprogrammable device, thereby generating computer-implemented processing.Therefore, the instructions executed on the computer or the otherprogrammable device provide steps for implementing a specific functionin one or more processes in the flowcharts and/or in one or more blocksin the block diagrams.

Although some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure have beendescribed, persons skilled in the art can make changes and modificationsto these embodiments once they learn the basic inventive concept.Therefore, the following claims are intended to be construed as to coverthe exemplary embodiments and all changes and modifications fallingwithin the scope of the present disclosure.

Obviously, persons skilled in the art can make various modifications andvariations to the present disclosure without departing from the spiritand scope of the present disclosure. The present disclosure is intendedto cover these modifications and variations provided that they fallwithin the scope of protection defined by the following claims and theirequivalent technologies.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for predicting a usage condition of aprogram running resource, comprising: collecting program runningresource usage at least once within each program running resource usageperiod; decomposing the collected program running resource usage into atrend component reflecting a variation trend of program running resourceusage, a seasonal component reflecting a periodic variation in programrunning resource usage, and a random component reflecting a randomvariation in program running resource usage; determining a predictionfunction for the resource component for data contained in each resourcecomponent; adding together the determined prediction functions for allthe resource components to obtain an overall prediction function for theprogram running resource; and predicting the usage condition of theprogram running resource based on the determined overall predictionfunction.
 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a predictionfunction for the trend component is one of a linear function and anonlinear function that uses prediction time as an independent variableand is obtained by performing one of linear fitting and nonlinearfitting on data contained in the trend component, wherein a predictionfunction for the seasonal component is St=S_(i), wherein i=t mod T,wherein t is prediction time, and T is a program running resource usageperiod, wherein S_(i) is an data point within a program running resourceusage period, to which t corresponds, of the seasonal component, andwherein a prediction function for the random component is a constant,and the constant is an upper quantile of the random component.
 3. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein the overall prediction function forthe program running resource is determined according to the followingformula:R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where wherein in the formula, R_(t) is theoverall prediction function for the program running resource, (a+bt) isa prediction function for the trend component, wherein a and b areconstants, i=t mod T, wherein T is a program running resource usageperiod, and (μ+kσ) is a prediction function for the random component,wherein μ is a mean value of data contained in the random component, σis a standard deviation of data contained in the random component, k isa constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].
 4. The method according to claim1, wherein predicting the usage condition of the program runningresource based on the determined overall prediction function comprises,according to the determined overall prediction function, at least one ofpredicting program running resource usage at future set time, predictingwhen the program running resource will be exhausted, and predicting whenprogram running resource usage will reach a set threshold in the future.5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage is the same within eachprogram running resource usage period.
 6. The method according to claim1, wherein a program running resource usage period is a period that isset according to a periodicity law of program running resource usage. 7.An apparatus for predicting a usage condition of a program runningresource, comprising: a computer processor configured to: collectprogram running resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period; decompose the collected program running resourceusage into a trend component reflecting a variation trend of programrunning resource usage, a seasonal component reflecting a periodicvariation in program running resource usage, and a random componentreflecting a random variation in program running resource usage;determine, for data contained in each resource component, a predictionfunction for the resource component, and add together the determinedprediction functions for all the resource components to obtain anoverall prediction function for the program running resource; andpredict the usage condition of the program running resource based on theoverall prediction function.
 8. The apparatus according to claim 7,wherein a prediction function for the trend component is one of a linearfunction and a nonlinear function that uses prediction time as anindependent variable and is obtained by performing one of linear fittingand nonlinear fitting on data contained in the trend component, whereina prediction function for the seasonal component is St=S_(i), whereini=t mod T, wherein t is prediction time, and T is a program runningresource usage period, wherein S_(i) is an i^(th) data point within aprogram running resource usage period, to which t corresponds, of theseasonal component, and wherein a prediction function for the randomcomponent is a constant, and the constant is an upper quantile of therandom component.
 9. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein thecomputer processor is configured to determine the overall predictionfunction for the program running resource according to the followingformula:R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where wherein in the formula, R_(t) is theoverall prediction function for the program running resource, (a+bt) isa prediction function for the trend component, wherein a and b areconstants; i=t mod T, wherein T is a program running resource usageperiod; and (μ+kσ) is a prediction function for the random component,wherein μ is a mean value of data contained in the random component, σis a standard deviation of data contained in the random component, k isa constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].
 10. The apparatus according toclaim 7, wherein the computer processor is configured to, according tothe determined overall prediction function, predict at least one ofprogram running resource usage at future set time, a time when theprogram running resource will be exhausted, and a time when programrunning resource usage will reach a set threshold in the future.
 11. Theapparatus according to claim 7, wherein a number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage is the same within each program runningresource usage period.
 12. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein aprogram running resource usage period is a period that is set accordingto a periodicity law of program running resource usage.
 13. A method fordetermining a leak of a program running resource, comprising: collectingprogram running resource usage at least once within each program runningresource usage period, wherein a number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period, and a program running resource usage period is a periodthat is set according to a periodicity law of program running resourceusage; determining, for every two program running resource usageperiods, a difference value between program running resource usagecollected each time within a latter period and program running resourceusage collected for a corresponding sequence number within a formerperiod, wherein a time difference between time when collection isperformed each time within the latter period and start time of thelatter period and a time difference between time when collection isperformed for a corresponding sequence number within the former periodand start time of the former period fall within a preset range, and thepreset range is at least one of a duration range smaller than a minimumtime interval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the former period and a duration range smaller than aminimum time interval among time intervals between every two adjacenttimes of collection within the latter period; and determining that thereis a leak of a program running resource when a difference between atotal number of difference values greater than 0 and a total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values isgreater than a set threshold, wherein a range of the threshold isgreater than or equal to 0, and is less than or equal to 70% of a sum ofthe total number of difference values greater than 0 and the totalnumber of difference values less than 0 among the determined differencevalues.
 14. A method for determining a leak of a program runningresource, comprising: collecting program running resource usage at leastonce within each program running resource usage period, wherein a numberof times of collecting program running resource usage is the same withineach program running resource usage period, and a program runningresource usage period is a period that is set according to a periodicitylaw of program running resource usage; determining, for every twoprogram running resource usage periods, a difference value betweenprogram running resource usage collected each time within a latterperiod and program running resource usage collected for a correspondingsequence number within a former period, wherein a time differencebetween time when collection is performed each time within the latterperiod and start time of the latter period and a time difference betweentime when collection is performed for a corresponding sequence numberwithin the former period and start time of the former period fall withina preset range, and the preset range is at least one of a duration rangesmaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals between everytwo adjacent times of collection within the former period and a durationrange smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals betweenevery two adjacent times of collection within the latter period;determining a statistic Z of a difference between a total number ofdifference values greater than 0 and a total number of difference valuesless than 0; and determining that there is a leak of a program runningresource when Z is greater than a set threshold, wherein the statistic Zof the difference S′ between the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0 isdetermined according to the following formula: when${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$wherein n is the number of program running resource usage periods;otherwise, $Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $ wherein${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{n - 1}{\sum\limits_{l = {k + 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il} - R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod, and wherein the threshold is a quantile value determinedaccording to a probability distribution of the statistic Z.
 15. Anapparatus for determining a leak of a program running resource,comprising: a computer processor configured to: collect program runningresource usage at least once within each program running resource usageperiod, wherein a number of times of collecting program running resourceusage is the same within each program running resource usage period, anda program running resource usage period is a period that is setaccording to a periodicity law of program running resource usage;determine, for every two program running resource usage periods, adifference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within a latter period and program running resource usage collectedfor a corresponding sequence number within a former period, wherein atime difference between time when collection is performed each timewithin the latter period and start time of the latter period and a timedifference between time when collection is performed for a correspondingsequence number within the former period and start time of the formerperiod fall within a preset range, and the preset range is at least oneof a duration range smaller than a minimum time interval among timeintervals between every two adjacent times of collection within theformer period and a duration range smaller than a minimum time intervalamong time intervals between every two adjacent times of collectionwithin the latter period; and determine, when a difference between atotal number of difference values greater than 0 and a total number ofdifference values less than 0 among the determined difference values isgreater than a set threshold, that there is a leak of a program runningresource, wherein a range of the threshold is greater than or equal to0, and is less than or equal to 70% of a sum of the total number ofdifference values greater than 0 and the total number of differencevalues less than 0 among the determined difference values.
 16. Anapparatus for determining a leak of a program running resource,comprising: a computer processor configured to: collect program runningresource usage at least once within each program running resource usageperiod, wherein a number of times of collecting program running resourceusage is the same within each program running resource usage period, anda program running resource usage period is a period that is setaccording to a periodicity law of program running resource usage;determine, for every two program running resource usage periods, adifference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within a latter period and program running resource usage collectedfor a corresponding sequence number within a former period, wherein atime difference between time when collection is performed each timewithin the latter period and start time of the latter period and a timedifference between time when collection is performed for a correspondingsequence number within the former period and start time of the formerperiod fall within a preset range, and the preset range is at least oneof a duration range smaller than a minimum time interval among timeintervals between every two adjacent times of collection within theformer period and a duration range smaller than a minimum time intervalamong time intervals between every two adjacent times of collectionwithin the latter period; and determine a statistic Z of a differencebetween a total number of difference values greater than 0 and a totalnumber of difference values less than 0, and when Z is greater than aset threshold, determine that there is a leak of a program runningresource, wherein the judging module is configured to determine thestatistic Z of the difference S′ between the total number of differencevalues greater than 0 and the total number of difference values lessthan 0 according to the following formula: when${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$wherein n is the number of program running resource usage periods;otherwise, $Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $ wherein${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{n - 1}{\sum\limits_{l = {k + 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il} - R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod, and wherein the threshold is a quantile value determinedaccording to a probability distribution of the statistic Z.
 17. A methodfor determining a leak of a program running resource, comprising:collecting program running resource usage at least once within eachprogram running resource usage period, wherein a number of times ofcollecting program running resource usage is the same within eachprogram running resource usage period, and a program running resourceusage period is a period that is set according to a periodicity law ofprogram running resource usage; determining, for any two program runningresource usage periods, a difference value between program runningresource usage collected each time within a latter period and programrunning resource usage collected for a corresponding sequence numberwithin a former period, wherein a time difference between time whencollection is performed each time within the latter period and starttime of the latter period and a time difference between time whencollection is performed for a corresponding sequence number within theformer period and start time of the former period fall within a presetrange; and determining whether there is a leak of a program runningresource according to a difference between a total number of differencevalues greater than 0 and a total number of difference values less than0 among the determined difference values.
 18. The method according toclaim 17, wherein the preset range is at least one of a duration rangesmaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals between everytwo adjacent times of collection within the former period and a durationrange smaller than a minimum time interval among time intervals betweenevery two adjacent times of collection within the latter period.
 19. Themethod according to claim 17, wherein determining whether there is aleak of a program running resource according to the difference betweenthe total number of difference values greater than 0 and the totalnumber of difference values less than 0 comprises determining that thereis a leak of a program running resource when the difference between thetotal number of difference values greater than 0 and the total number ofdifference values less than 0 is greater than a set threshold.
 20. Themethod according to claim 19, wherein a range of the threshold isgreater than or equal to 0, and is less than or equal to 70% of a sum ofthe total number of difference values greater than 0 and the totalnumber of difference values less than 0 among the determined differencevalues.
 21. The method according to claim 17, wherein determiningwhether there is a leak of a program running resource according to thedifference between the total number of difference values greater than 0and the total number of difference values less than 0 comprises:determining a statistic Z of the difference between the total number ofdifference values greater than 0 and the total number of differencevalues less than 0; and determining that there is a leak of a programrunning resource when Z is greater than a set threshold.
 22. The methodaccording to claim 21, wherein the statistic Z of the difference S′between the total number of difference values greater than 0 and thetotal number of difference values less than 0 is determined according tothe following formula: when${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$wherein n is the number of program running resource usage periods;otherwise, $Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $ wherein${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{n - 1}{\sum\limits_{l = {k + 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il} - R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod.
 23. The method according to claim 21, wherein the threshold is aquantile value determined according to a probability distribution of thestatistic Z.
 24. An apparatus for determining a leak of a programrunning resource, comprising: a computer processor configured to:collect program running resource usage at least once within each programrunning resource usage period, and transmit the collected programrunning resource usage, wherein a number of times of collecting programrunning resource usage is the same within each program running resourceusage period, and a program running resource usage period is a periodthat is set according to a periodicity law of program running resourceusage; receive the program running resource usage that is collected eachtime, and for any two program running resource usage periods, determinea difference value between program running resource usage collected eachtime within a latter period and program running resource usage collectedfor a corresponding sequence number within a former period, and transmitthe determined difference values, wherein a time difference between timewhen collection is performed each time within the latter period andstart time of the latter period and a time difference between time whencollection is performed for a corresponding sequence number within theformer period and start time of the former period fall within a presetrange; and receive the difference values and determine whether there isa leak of a program running resource according to a difference betweenthe total number of difference values greater than 0 and the totalnumber of difference values less than 0 among the determined differencevalues.
 25. The apparatus according to claim 24, wherein the presetrange is at least one of a duration range smaller than a minimum timeinterval among time intervals between every two adjacent times ofcollection within the former period and a duration range smaller than aminimum time interval among time intervals between every two adjacenttimes of collection within the latter period.
 26. The apparatusaccording to claim 24, wherein the computer processor is configured todetermine that there is a leak of a programming running resource whenthe difference between the total number of difference values greaterthan 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0 is greaterthan a set threshold.
 27. The apparatus according to claim 26, wherein arange of the threshold is greater than or equal to 0, and is less thanor equal to 70% of a sum of the total number of difference valuesgreater than 0 and the total number of difference values less than 0among the determined difference values.
 28. The apparatus according toclaim 24, wherein the computer processor is configured to: determine astatistic Z of the difference between the total number of differencevalues greater than 0 and the total number of difference values lessthan 0; and determine that there is a leak of a program running resourcewhen Z is greater than a set threshold.
 29. The apparatus according toclaim 28, wherein the computer processor is configured to determine thestatistic Z of the difference S′ between the total number of differencevalues greater than 0 and the total number of difference values lessthan 0 according to the following formula: when${n \geq 10},{Z = \frac{S^{\prime}}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}}},$wherein n is the number of program running resource usage periods;otherwise, $Z = \{ {\begin{matrix}{\frac{( {S^{\prime} - 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} > 0} \\{0,} & {S^{\prime} = 0} \\{\frac{( {S^{\prime} + 1} )}{\lbrack {{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} \rbrack^{1/2}},} & {S^{\prime} < 0}\end{matrix},} $ wherein${S_{i} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{n - 1}{\sum\limits_{l = {k + 1}}^{n}{{sgn}( {R_{il} - R_{ik}} )}}}},{S^{\prime} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}S_{i}}},{{{VAR}( S^{\prime} )} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}{{VAR}( S_{i} )}}},$R_(ik) is program running resource usage collected for an time within ak^(th) program running resource usage period, R_(il) is program runningresource usage collected for an i^(th) time within a 1st program runningresource usage period, and m is the number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage within one program running resource usageperiod.
 30. The apparatus according to claim 28, wherein the thresholdis a quantile value determined according to a probability distributionof the statistic Z.
 31. A method for predicting a usage condition of aprogram running resource, comprising: collecting program runningresource usage at least once within each program running resource usageperiod, wherein a program running resource usage period is a period thatis set according to a periodicity law of program running resource usage;decomposing the collected program running resource usage into differentresource components, wherein the different resource components areconstituent parts with different variation laws that are obtained bydecomposing the program running resource usage according to a use law ofa program running resource; determining, for data contained in eachresource component, a prediction function for the resource component;determining an overall prediction function for the program runningresource according to the determined prediction functions for all theresource components; and predicting the usage condition of the programrunning resource based on the determined overall prediction function.32. The method according to claim 31, wherein decomposing the collectedprogram running resource usage into different resource componentscomprises at least one of: decomposing the collected program runningresource usage into a seasonal component reflecting a periodic variationin program running resource usage and a random component reflecting arandom variation in program running resource usage; decomposing thecollected program running resource usage into a trend componentreflecting a variation trend of program running resource usage and arandom component reflecting a random variation in program runningresource usage; and decomposing the collected program running resourceusage into a trend component reflecting a variation trend of programrunning resource usage, a seasonal component reflecting a periodicvariation in program running resource usage, and a random componentreflecting a random variation in program running resource usage.
 33. Themethod according to claim 32, wherein a prediction function for thetrend component is a one of linear function and a nonlinear functionthat uses prediction time as an independent variable and is obtained byperforming one of linear fitting and nonlinear fitting on data containedin the trend component, wherein a prediction function for the seasonalcomponent is St=S_(i), wherein i=t mod T, wherein t is prediction time,and T is a program running resource usage period, wherein S_(i) is andata point within a program running resource usage period, to which tcorresponds, of the seasonal component, and wherein a predictionfunction for the random component is a constant, and the constant is anupper quantile of the random component.
 34. The method according toclaim 31, wherein determining the overall prediction function for theprogram running resource according to the determined predictionfunctions for all the resource components comprises adding thedetermined prediction functions for all the resource components toobtain the overall prediction function for the program running resource.35. The method according to claim 34, wherein the overall predictionfunction for the program running resource is determined according to thefollowing formula:R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where wherein in the formula, R_(t) is theoverall prediction function for the program running resource; (a+bt) isa prediction function for a trend component, wherein a and b areconstants; i=t mod T, wherein T is a program running resource usageperiod; and (μ+kσ) is a prediction function for a random component,wherein μ is a mean value of data contained in the random component, σis a standard deviation of data contained in the random component, k isa constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].
 36. The method according toclaim 31, wherein the resource components comprise at least one of: aseasonal component reflecting a periodic variation and a randomcomponent reflecting a random variation; a trend component reflecting avariation trend of program running resource usage and a random componentreflecting a random variation; and a trend component reflecting avariation trend of program running resource usage, a seasonal componentreflecting a periodic variation, and a random component reflecting arandom variation; wherein a prediction function for the trend componentis one of a linear function and a nonlinear function that usesprediction time as an independent variable and is obtained by performingone of linear fitting and nonlinear fitting on data contained in thetrend component, wherein a prediction function for the seasonalcomponent is S_(i), wherein i=t mod T, wherein t is prediction time, andT is a program running resource usage period, wherein S_(i) is an i^(th)piece of program running resource usage within a program runningresource usage period corresponding to t, and wherein a predictionfunction for the random component is an upper confidence limitdetermined according to a mean value and a standard deviation of datacontained in the random component.
 37. The method according to claim 36,wherein, when the resource components comprise the trend component, theseasonal component, and the random component, the overall predictionfunction for the program running resource is determined according to thefollowing formula:R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where in the formula, R_(t) is the overallprediction function for the program running resource; (a+bt) is theprediction function for the trend component, wherein a and b areconstants; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function for the randomcomponent, wherein μ is the mean value of data contained in the randomcomponent, σ is the standard deviation of data contained in the randomcomponent, and k is a constant.
 38. The method according to claim 31,wherein predicting the usage condition of the program running resourcebased on the determined overall prediction function comprises, accordingto the determined overall prediction function, at least one ofpredicting program running resource usage at a future set time,predicting when the program running resource will be exhausted, andpredicting when program running resource usage will reach a setthreshold in the future.
 39. The method according to claim 31, wherein anumber of times of collecting program running resource usage is the samewithin each program running resource usage period.
 40. An apparatus forpredicting a usage condition of a program running resource, comprising:a computer processor configured to: collect program running resourceusage at least once within each program running resource usage period,and transmit the collected program running resource usage, wherein aprogram running resource usage period is a period that is set accordingto a periodicity law of program running resource usage; receive theprogram running resource usage collected, decompose the collectedprogram running resource usage into different resource components, andtransmit data contained in each resource component, wherein thedifferent resource components are constituent parts that are obtained bydecomposing the program running resource according to a use law of aprogram running resource and have different variation laws; receive thedata contained in each resource component obtained throughdecomposition, for data contained in each resource component, determinea prediction function for the resource component, determine an overallprediction function for the program running resource according to thedetermined prediction functions for all the resource components, andtransmit the determined overall prediction function; and receive theoverall prediction function determined by the determining module, andpredict a usage condition of the program running resource based on theoverall prediction function.
 41. The apparatus according to claim 40,wherein the computer processor is configured to decompose the collectedprogram running resource usage into at least one of: a seasonalcomponent reflecting a periodic variation in program running resourceusage and a random component reflecting a random variation in programrunning resource usage; a trend component reflecting a variation trendof program running resource usage and a random component reflecting arandom variation in program running resource usage; and a trendcomponent reflecting a variation trend of program running resourceusage, a seasonal component reflecting a periodic variation in programrunning resource usage, and a random component reflecting a randomvariation in program running resource usage.
 42. The apparatus accordingto claim 41, wherein a prediction function for the trend component isone of a linear function and a nonlinear function that uses predictiontime as an independent variable and is obtained by performing one oflinear fitting and nonlinear fitting on data contained in the trendcomponent; wherein a prediction function for the seasonal component isSt=S_(i), wherein i=t mod T, wherein t is prediction time, and T is aprogram running resource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) data pointwithin a program running resource usage period, to which t corresponds,of the seasonal component; and wherein a prediction function for therandom component is a constant, and the constant is an upper quantile ofthe random component.
 43. The apparatus according to claim 40, wherein,when the computer processor is configured to determine the overallprediction function for the program running resource according to thedetermined prediction functions for all the resource components, thedetermining module is configured to add the determined predictionfunctions for all the resource components to obtain the overallprediction function for the program running resource.
 44. The apparatusaccording to claim 43, wherein, when the computer processor isconfigured to determine the overall prediction function for the programrunning resource according to the determined prediction functions forall the resource components, the determining module is configured todetermine the overall prediction function for the program runningresource according to the following formula:R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where in the formula, R_(t) is the overallprediction function for the program running resource; (a+bt) is aprediction function for a trend component, wherein a and b areconstants; i=t mod T, wherein T is a program running resource usageperiod; and (μ+kσ) is a prediction function for a random component,wherein μ is a mean value of data contained in the random component, σis a standard deviation of data contained in the random component, k isa constant, and a range of k is (0, 6].
 45. The apparatus according toclaim 40, wherein the resource components obtained through decompositionby the computer processor comprise at least one of: a seasonal componentreflecting a periodic variation and a random component reflecting arandom variation; a trend component reflecting a variation trend ofprogram running resource usage and a random component reflecting arandom variation; and a trend component reflecting a variation trend ofprogram running resource usage, a seasonal component reflecting aperiodic variation, and a random component reflecting a randomvariation; wherein a prediction function for the trend component is oneof a linear function and a nonlinear function that uses prediction timeas an independent variable and is obtained by performing one of linearfitting and nonlinear fitting on data contained in the trend component;wherein a prediction function for the seasonal component is S_(i),wherein i=t mod T, wherein t is prediction time, and T is a programrunning resource usage period; and S_(i) is an i^(th) piece of programrunning resource usage within a program running resource usage periodcorresponding to t; and wherein a prediction function for the randomcomponent is an upper confidence limit determined according to a meanvalue and a standard deviation of data contained in the randomcomponent.
 46. The apparatus according to claim 45, wherein the computerprocessor is configured to, when the resource components obtainedthrough decomposition by the decomposing module comprise the trendcomponent, the seasonal component, and the random component, determinethe overall prediction function for the program running resourceaccording to the following formula:R _(t)=(a+bt)+S _(i)+(μ+kσ), where wherein in the formula, R_(t) is theoverall prediction function for the program running resource; (a+bt) isthe prediction function for the trend component, wherein a and b areconstants; and (μ+kσ) is the prediction function for the randomcomponent, wherein μ is the mean value of data contained in the randomcomponent, σ is the standard deviation of data contained in the randomcomponent, and k is a constant.
 47. The apparatus according to claim 40,wherein the computer processor is configured to, according to thedetermined overall prediction function, predict at least one of programrunning resource usage at future set time, a time when the programrunning resource will be exhausted, and a time when program runningresource usage will reach a set threshold in the future.
 48. Theapparatus according to claim 40, wherein a number of times of collectingprogram running resource usage is the same within each program runningresource usage period.